Octoporto Rafti…
I only lived there a few months, but returning to the little bay town southeast of Athens feels like returning to a childhood home. I’m the luckiest guy in the…
I only lived there a few months, but returning to the little bay town southeast of Athens feels like returning to a childhood home. I’m the luckiest guy in the…
“Oh, that city kinda feels like Berlin.” “This town reminds me a little of Chicago.” “It is like a small version of London.” “Memphis looks a lot like Cairo when…
The office. Wherever I go into a city, I have an office. In Greece, my office was was the coffeeshop down the street from the Fivos Hotel where I stay…
…or have your own made for you. The Melissinos have been making sandals for three generations now. And for famous people, too: John Lennon, Jackie Onassis, Bob Saget, a host…
Took a walk around the historical stuff again today. Acropolis, the agoras… …so many of the old stories that I was told come flooding back. Its really true: you remember…
…or two grapes on a vine, if you will. Or two dogs in a window surrounded by grapes on a vine. I mean, its all Athens. For a short time…
…yet I am thousands of miles away. But to me, this feels very much like “home.” Somehow, Greece feels just as much of “home” as my University back in Arkansas…
** ORIGINAL POST: 5 May 2008 ** On April 26, we departed Harding University’s Artemis Hotel… …to fly out of the ATH for my 8th and final time this semester……
** ORIGINAL POST: 27 Feb 2008 ** The past few days have been ridiculous – projects and tests… one after another… My last one is at 8:30pm (Athens time) today.…
** ORIGINAL POST: 16 Feb 2008 ** So, I honestly did not know what to expect the day after massive strikes and demonstrations by the public transportation workers in Athens,…
** ORIGINAL POST: 12 Feb 2008 ** Ah… to see the scans come back from the lab. It makes a guy feel all warm and fuzzy inside. A couple of…
** ORIGINAL POST: 28 Jan 2008 ** Still in Athens… …until tomorrow… Tomorrow – at 10:45 – we depart for Cairo, Egypt. But, yesterday… was yet another beautiful day in…