Hand-plastered whitewashed interior in raking light

Journal

From the house

Not a content strategy. Anna writes one when something has happened, which is roughly once a month between April and October.

The season's weather, what the kitchen has been getting, the building work that never quite finishes, and the honest answer to where else to eat.

Nothing here is written to rank for anything. If you would rather be told when there is a new one, the letters at the bottom of every page go out four times a year.

Hands laying a blue-patterned plate on a wooden table

What the boats brought in this week

14 May 2026

A fortnight of gouna, one unexpected amberjack of four kilos, and three nights when the wind kept the boats in and the kitchen cooked vegetables and apologised.

Whitewashed steps and walls in Plaka on Milos

Zde, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Repointing the terrace wall, by hand

2 May 2026

Forty metres of dry stone, two masons from Sifnos who would not hear of mortar, and the slowest and most expensive four weeks of our year.

Zde, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Where to eat on Milos when we are full

21 April 2026

We are fourteen rooms and one table, and in August that is not enough for everybody. So here is the honest list of where else to eat, and what we take from it.