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Ian Mason | @thedimpause

brick β€” day 11 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge πŸ“·

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Bruegel House, Brussels, 2024

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Final night’s retsina! Probably the best of the ones I’ve tried on this trip.

Auto-generated description: A bottle of Malamatina and two glasses of wine sit on a blue table next to a Scrabble game in progress at night.
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Location check in β€” Kyknos Taverna, Gouves πŸ‡¬πŸ‡·
πŸ—Ί Map of area

Google satellite map showing location pin

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Early evening retsina. Not a lot of info on the label but it’s marked 1895 on the crown cap so I guess it’s an established winery.

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rail β€” day 10 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge πŸ“·

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Athens, 2018

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Tonight’s retsina, from Peza Agricultural Union, Crete πŸ‡¬πŸ‡·

Auto-generated description: A bottle of EKABH Retsina and a filled glass sit on a blue table against a dark background with greenery.
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wood β€” day 9 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge πŸ“·

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Currently reading: Everything Must Go: Why We Are Obsessed With the End of the World by Dorian Lynskey πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Second Place by Rachel Cusk πŸ“š

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travel β€” day 8 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge πŸ“·

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Heraklion International Airport “Nikos Kazantzakis”

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Kato Gouves Beach. πŸ“

Capturing the sunset πŸŒ…

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Tonight’s retsina - Mihalis Georgiadis. From the label the winery appears to be based in Chalkidiki/Thessaloniki and has been in business since the 1940s 🍷

Auto-generated description: A bottle of Greek wine labeled Retsina is placed between two glasses on a blue table against a background of greenery at night.
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Currently reading: Second Place by Rachel Cusk πŸ“š

A female narrator, M, invites a famous painter, L, to use her guesthouse on the English coast marshlands where she lives with her family. It is inspired by Mabel Dodge Luhan’s 1932 memoir Lorenzo in Taos, about the writer D. H. Lawrence’s early 1920s sojourn in Taos, New Mexico.

Wikipedia

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🎡 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Jacques Brel (40 plays), Paul Simon (40), The Who (29), The Cure (22), The Doors (21)

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We have a sea view from our balcony. Just need to zoom in a little πŸ”­πŸ˜„

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