20 September 2011 by Tristan Gooley
OK, it’s confession time. Again.
I’m just back from a week’s holiday with my wife on the Greek island of Kefalonia. It was our first holiday without the kids for about seven years, which felt bizarre from start to finish. This is the only, admittedly weak, excuse for the navigational lapse that ensued.
In Fiskardo, at the northern end of Kefalonia, we hired a small day-boat and spent many mornings motoring up and down the east coast of Kefalonia. We pursued the not very stressful business of hunting quiet bays and seeking secluded beaches for a swim.
On the fifth morning we putt-putted all the way round the northern Kefalonian coast to a beach at the northern tip of the island called, Dafnoudi beach.
We had spent almost all of the week on the east coast of the Kefalonia looking across the water, to the east, and seeing the beautiful…
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28 October 2008 by Tristan Gooley
Those who have been on a course will know the strange pleasure that I get from connecting seemingly unrelated things through natural navigation, so here, before your eyes I will attempt to connect a cat on a dustbin and a Greek orthodox priest.
The Gooleys have just returned from a week visiting family in the Peloponnese. My brother’s house is high in the Greek hills and we found 
ourselves following the same route down a few times each day on the way to towns, villages or the beach. It was during 
these trips in the car that I noticed that certain animals and indeed, in the case of one Greek orthodox priest, people appeared with a soothing predictability at certain points on the journey.
There was a corner that I remembered well for the dustbin which invariably had this cat sitting on it, and the turning to the…
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OK, it’s confession time. Again.
