Pietro and Fabrizio Caróla at Da Barba Dimas.

This summer the island acquired a couple of splendid new attractions. Not only Jazzmin’s jazz club but also a real asset for the palate in the form of authentic Italian cuisine. Da Barba Dimas is owned and run by a team who hail from Naples, father and son, Fabrizio and Pietro Caróla.

A great alternative dining experience and reasonably priced for us village folk when we do escape to the megalopolis of Hydra Town, ‘Little Italy’ in a very short time has earned a reputation for scrumptious food and splendid hospitality. They also stock wines from their hometown region.

We wish them a long and prosperous stay on the Rock.

Anybody get it?

Not quite as outlandish as the artistic ‘happening’ that involved a grilled shark and a glass coffin of two summers ago, this astounding “sculpture” on the Kamini coast road gets our vote as a close second for the most incomprehensible art form to grace our island recently.

Titled ‘Space In-between,” the pair of golden wrapped ‘walls’ was part of an event for the Eleventh Plateau—a performance only understood by those familiar with new-age-type convictions.

We did not enquire as to the cost of the event because as anyone in the ‘know’ will tell you, one cannot put a value on art, which is in the eye of the beholder. Still, we prefer the natural sunset beauty unhindered by a golden barricade—at no cost, though that is neither here nor there.

And the Runner-up is...