Currently reading: Submission by Michel Houellebecq 📚

Morning of our last full day in Kos 🇬🇷 Spinach and cheese pies for a beach breakfast

Finished reading: The Smiths: a novella by Michael Bracewell 📚 Short but well-written and interesting. Provided a generous supply of films, music and books that I now need to re-visit or investigate.

Currently reading: The Smiths: a novella by Michael Bracewell 📚

Graviera, Kalamon olives and fish biscuits 🙂

Finished reading: List of the Lost by Morrissey 📚

Finished reading: The Gate of the Feral Gods: Dungeon Crawler Carl 4 by Matt Dinniman 📚

This evenings wine tasting was followed by cheese and wine on our apartment balcony - Krasotyri, the wine cheese of Kos, and a Syrah from another nearby vineyard 🧀🍷

Tasting eight wines at Hatziemmanouil Vineyards, Kos 🇬🇷🍷

Cultured graffiti: https://thedimpau.se/2026/10/06/cultured-graffiti.html

Finished reading: Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry 📚 Combined text and audiobook reading

Currently reading: List of the Lost by Morrissey (author) 📚

Finished reading: Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino 📚

Currently reading: The Gate of the Feral Gods: Dungeon Crawler Carl 4 by Matt Dinniman 📚

🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Paul Heaton (15 plays), Morrissey (12), Stornoway (11), Radie Peat (2)

Sunset strolls: https://thedimpau.se/2026/10/03/sunset-strolls.html

Ouzo evenings: https://thedimpau.se/2026/10/03/ouzo-evenings.html

Finished reading: The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook: Dungeon Crawler Carl 3 by Matt Dinniman 📚

Alikes Salt Lake: https://thedimpau.se/2026/10/03/alikes-salt-lake.html

In the Agora: https://thedimpau.se/2026/10/02/in-the-agora.html

Statue of Hippocrates: https://thedimpau.se/2026/10/02/statue-of-hippocrates.html

Location check in — Hippocrates Plane Tree, Kos 🌳🇬🇷 🗺 Map of area

🔎 36.894699, 27.290917

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Finished reading: Buddhism Without Beliefs by Stephen Batchelor 📚

Currently reading: Buddhism Without Beliefs by Stephen Batchelor 📚

Currently reading: The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook: Dungeon Crawler Carl 3 by Matt Dinniman 📚

Finished reading: Buddha, Socrates, and Us by Stephen Batchelor 🪷📚 Very interesting. An exploration of the lives, circumstances and philosophies of Siddhartha Gautama and Socrates. Digressions into Friedrich Nietzsche, Mar... https://thedimpau.se/2026/09/30/finished-reading-buddha-socrates-and.html

Somebody remind me - why do we need [walking poles](<www.theguardian.com/thefilter…)? I seem to be able to walk and hike in a perfectly acceptable fashion without them… 🚶

I hiked 100 miles to find the best walking poles, here are my favourites

Trekking poles can improve balance on uneven terrain and reduce stress on joints. Our seasoned adventurer put 10 to the test to find the best

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Finished reading: The Autobiography by Alastair Cook 🏏📚 Definitely one of the better modern cricket autobiographies I’ve read. (Written with the assistance of Michael Calvin)

Currently reading: The Autobiography by Alastair Cook 🏏📚

Finished reading: Carl’s doomsday scenario: Dungeon Crawler Carl 2 by Matt Dinniman 📚