SOH 11/66 The Island of Kythera and its Inter-Church Team. Since the end of 1959, when we came to Kythera at the request of its Bishop Meletios, all of our work has been done in cooperation with the Bishop. However, it must be said that at times there have been differences of opinion […]
‘Einde’ uit ‘Het Hollandse Boek’
“Het Hollandse Boek” is een verzameling vertellingen opgeschreven als de belevenissen en ervaringen van George (of Martin) de Groot en zijn vrouw Jeanne op het eiland Monaxìa, het eiland van de eenzaamheid. Door Jurjen Marten Koksma (Dit verhaal ‘Einde’ uit deze verzameling in Word gezet door Jean Bingen, mei 2021) Einde Er […]
Iets van het boerenleven vanaf 1960
(IETS OVER GRIEKENLAND (II)) Door Jurjen Marten Koksma, Kythira 1990. (In Word door Jean Bingen, mei 2021) Iets van het Griekse boerenleven (I) Maar dan niet alleen dat van vandaag, maar vanaf 1960. In april 1960 kwamen mijn vrouw en ik hier op ‘ons’ eiland Kythira aan, om een ontwikkelingsproject uit te voeren. […]
Team Kythira 1967 – 1971 and their contacts with the Military Junta 1967-1974
Team Kythera in 1967-1971 and their contacts with the Military Junta 1967-1974 At the time the coupe was committed George and Anna had just gone to Switzerland for a retrait and afterwards went on to Holland for a vacation and would not return before the end of May. As it was near Easter […]
The Jeep Willys
The Jeep Willys It soon becomes apparent that another more robust means of transport is desirable to reach the far corners of the island. They can borrow a jeep from Ioannina’s team, but then they must pick it up themselves. George and Anna fly from Athens to Ioannina on October 10 in […]
The Air Compressor
Team’s air compressor This air compressor was also donated to the Kythera WCC Team by the German Aid Organisation “Brot für die Welt” and arrived at Kythira in 1961. Fortunately this machine stood on wheels and could be tractor-pulled to all remote places on the island. Pvc pipes had been donated […]
The Bulldozer
The bulldozer, make Allis Chalmers, was donated to the Kythera WCC Team by the German Aid Organisation “Brot für die Welt” and arrived at Kapsali in 1961 (March 9). Its steel tracks would damage the asphalted roads, in those years being from Kapsali to Potamos and from Karvounades to Mylopotamos. Therefor it had […]
The slow but lethal pine disease at Kythera
The slow but lethal pine disease at Kythera When travelling over Kythera one sees numerous pines with a cotton like “growth” on trunk and branches. If you google “pine diseases” on Internet you find a clarifying explanation from the Parnitha forestry management dated 2006: the insect Marchalina hellenica is mainly responsible for […]
Water supply systems Logothetianika, Potamos and Diakopoulianika
The installation of water supply systems for the first three villages Logothetianika, Potamos and Diakopoulianika in 1962. By Jean Bingen, February 2021. This story is more in detail only about these three villages than the general story “Search for domestic water at Kythera in the sixties”. George (Jurjen) and Anna […]
Search for domestic water
Search for domestic water at Kythera in the sixties and how Karavas, Logothetianika and Potamos as earliest villages got their water supply system. When George and Anna Koksma arrived by car from Holland at Kythera by the end of April 1960, to improve on request of Bishop Meletios living conditions on the […]