Samos: houses, publications

" Misguided " was launched in April 2022, by online Publishes Ishin Daishin, London, UK. Misguided reconstructs in great detail the 1990s summer season Ruard spent as a tourleader on the bus, from Athens to Crete to the remote island of Chios. Starting this career out of sheer economic necessity, Ruard quickly learns how to operate in a world of conflicting interests, local tyrants and flabbergasted tourists - taking the reader on a tour where one learns a lot more about Greece than in any guidebook, while embracing the central message of the tourist trade: always keep smiling.  He thought that his brand new degree would open the door to a posh job in Athens, but his depleted bank account had other plans. Before he knew it, Ruard became a holiday rep for a small Greek tour operator. What followed was an eventful summer of dodgy travel agents, noisy hotels, demanding customers, undercover guiding by not-so-official tour guides and coaches that were way too small (or way too bi

the first Summer Island Movie Festival - Samos, July 2012 by Ruard Wallis de Vries (this is an extended version of an article published in the Dutch magazine Lychnari, March 2013 ) A warm Greek summer night on Samos. About a hundred people are seated together on an intimate square, between a school building, a nursery and the milky-white church of Agios Panteleimonas. After two failed attempts, the DVD of director Alex McCall appears to be working after all. Thank heavens for that - McCall himself has come over to Samos especially for this occasion, to show his documentary called The Boy David Story , for which he's won a BAFTA [1] award. The projector hums. The sound from the speakers is excellent. And the documentary comes out beautifully on the church wall. Yes, the church wall. Our festival couldn't have wished for a better, a Greeker movie screen than the side wall of the church dedicated to Saint Panteleimon. But then it happens. From afar, we se