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Livadia harbour, Tilos.
Tilos World Travels 

Filoxenia is Real on Tilos

September 4, 2025October 10, 2025 Joan Thompson 0 Comments Filoxenia, Seva's Studios, Tilos

With flapping tentacles of bags and bottles, and my attempt to keep my hat on, and stay astride the scooter, we are soaring down the hill to the sea. The moment of flight lifts and exhilarates, every thought hushed by the streaming wind.

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Coastal roads of Albania and Greece
World Travels 

Aloft and Agog: Cycling Coastal Roads of Albania and Greece

December 20, 2019December 18, 2019 Joan Thompson 0 Comments Cycling Albania, Cycling Greece, Peloponnese, Tilos, Tirana

A fondness for roads that swoop from cove to cove along sun-bleached coastlines, and a yen for the unknown and less travelled. That was the impulse behind my Tirana-Tilos bike trip.

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Livadia, Tilos.
Tilos/Greece 

My Tiny Home on Tilos

December 29, 2016May 27, 2021 Joan Thompson 0 Comments international living, owning a home in Greece, Tilos

Bedecked with Bougainvillea:  My Tiny Home on Tilos I have always wanted to live in a village. The kind of

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Livadia Harbour
Tilos/Greece 

Forever, Tilos

June 30, 2016 Joan Thompson 2 Comments Dodecanese, Harkadio Cave, Knights Hospitaller, Livadia, Mikro Horio, Moni Agiou Panteleimona, Tilos

Small islands have the tendency to steal our hearts, particularly when
they have not yielded to the scourge of ‘modernism’. Don’t say I didn’t warn you about Tilos!

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Tilos/Greece 

An Easter Encore with Firecrackers

May 4, 2016April 12, 2017 Joan Thompson 0 Comments Orthodox Easter, Patmos, Symi, Tilos

There are some Orthodox Easter traditions in Greece that
are enthusiastically embraced by….the youth.

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Blue Star Ferries to Tilos
Tilos Tilos/Greece 

Eventually, Greece

April 22, 2016April 22, 2016 Joan Thompson 2 Comments Kismet, Rhodes Town, Stoicism, Tilos

Eventually, Greece Our first destination in Greece is the tiny, rustic and rugged island of Tilos, just offshore Turkey and

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J. Kathleen Thompson, Travel Enthusiast and Writer
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