In this evocative piece, Anna Fienburg reflects on our first day’s excursion — to the Church of Saint Savvas the New and on to the Kalymnian House Museum. Then she shifts focus to Day 3: our climb to the citadel at Chora, where (as Charmian Clift writes in Honour’s Mimic)  ten tiny chapels ‘glitter among the high ruins like celestial droppings’.

An image can be a great inspiration for a written piece. Here one of the Kalymnos Workshop members has been inspired by a photo of a Kalymnian woman, taken in the 1950s. She has included a reference to the healing herbs that we saw growing on the hillside of the old citadel of Chora. This story fits with one of our themes — the strength of Kalymnian women.