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For the past 53 years Eleni Tzima and her husband Nasos Tzimas have herded their livestock some 150 kilometers (241 miles) between summer pastures in northwest Greece's isolated highlands down to their winter home in the lowlands. The Tzimas family is part of a millennia-old tradition of transhumance , or the seasonal movement of animals between fixed grazing grounds. But it's a dying one: they are some of the last still practicing this way of farming in the country. During the summer months the couple, both in their 80s, live in a makeshift hut, using solar energy to power a radio, cellphones and lights. They're among the oldest pastoral shepherds to take part in an annual trek, known as "diava", in the mountainous Pindus National Park near Greece's border with Albania. Tzima, who says her husband's ill health means the 2020 trek would likely be their last, describes their way of life as hard but rewarding. "We struggle every day from dawn to dusk. I've never had a day … [Read more...] about A journey with Greece’s last nomadic shepherds

Veteran Wellington publican Russel​ Scott is bowing out, almost completely, from of a lifelong business career in the brewing and hospitality industry. Scott, in his 73rd year, founded some of the capital’s best known and loved pub businesses like The Backbencher and Flanagans started by him and other ex-Lion Breweries staffers. Scott has agreed to sell three well-known businesses in Featherston St to sharemarket listed company Good Spirits Hospitality (GSH) for $3.4 million plus stock on hand of $75,000. Leuven Belgian Beer Cafe, The Featherston Tavern and tapas bar Avida willcross into the ownership of GSH if several conditions of the sale are met. The bars are on the corners of the intersection of Featherston and Johnston streets in the CBD. READ MORE: Wellington's Belgian beer cafe turns twenty, original decor still intact Palmerston North brewery gets on tap at Celtic Inn A Wellington beer festival - with real beer - in your living room next weekend Scott and … [Read more...] about Veteran Wellington publican and founder of the Backbencher calls time on his career

Game Details Developer: ConcernedApe Publisher : Chucklefish Platform : PC Release Date: February 26, 2016 Price : £10.99 / $14.99 Links: Steam | Official website Simulation games have always felt lonely to me, almost empty. For all of their enticements, their promises of endless adventure, they invariably fall short. Somewhere, somehow, something breaks the immersion, laying bare the machinery behind the curtains. It's never the virtual life advertised, just a simulacrum of a dream. So, when the first mentions of farm-life simulator Stardew Valley bloomed on Twitter, I raised an eyebrow. It's been described as Harvest Moon crossed with Animal Crossing and Zelda , a love letter to the pastoral classics. But I'd been there, done that, and while I adored my time with Starbound— my last farming-type flirtation—it left me feeling as though I was a child with a diorama of talking action figures, rather than an extraterrestrial colony leader. … [Read more...] about review: A pastoral, contemporary escape