Wherein I show you some glamourous hats and offer advice on the necessities:
There are two body parts that need special protection in Greece: your head, and your feet. They can ruin a holiday faster than you can say, “I’ll have another tyropita, parakalo.”* Take it from my twenty year-old self, who spent two days in [...]
I was running around getting ready for my trip and working on a blog redesign, when I ran across something that really sparked my interest, but is completely off-topic for this blog. It’s this press interview of Lance Armstrong denying Floyd Landis’ accusations of doping.
I don’t have a horse in this race, and I’ve never [...]
I’ve gotten more than a few messages asking about costs related to traveling to Greece, so I thought it warranted a blog post.
The good news: compared to most European nations, Greece is extremely affordable.
The bad news: if you’re American, you’re still getting about .60 euro to $1.
Timing is everything. Prices go down by as much [...]
To utter a curse out loud was considered one of the most heinous things a person could do in ancient Greece. A curse spoken was a curse given life and set on it’s course. To the ancient Greeks, the spoken word carried a lot of power as it spun through the universe, gaining momentum, taking [...]
I was walking down a street in Georgetown the other day and heard a woman make a comment about me to the friend at her side. The comment concerned something I’ve always considered to be quite normal about myself, but apparently the women had an altogether different idea of what constituted normal.
The comment didn’t [...]
I thought I should warn you about driving in Greece.
Those of you who watched the video I posted from Sifnos a few months back will remember my initial nervousness about having to drive a manual shift after a six year hiatus. I was given a baptism-by-fire on the hairpin turns of Greek roads.
As with all [...]
On my way out of Athens, I decided to take the metro from Omonia station to the airport. The automated ticket machine offered only two options for tickets: a .50 Euro ticket or a 1 Euro ticket. This seemed a tad too good to be true, so I walked to another ticket machine to see [...]
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