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Nafplio: Where Home Tracked Me Down
A story of how I went abroad, and how York followed me. June 2007 Well, I’m not sitting indoors all day. I may have just arrived, I may be recovering from the double-whammy of the worst sunburn and the...
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I Have Special You Like, Yes?
(Originally in Fevered Mutterings v3). This is a story about the importance of marketing. I’m sat in a cafe outside the Hotel Epidavros near Omonia Square, Athens, on a gently roasting July day. I’m...
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My Stomach Belongs To Jannis
Greece, they say, has the best of everything. The seas are the bluest you’ll ever see. The walls are the most blazingly white, as if just specially painted for a detergent commercial. The priests have...
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Haunted By Half-Seen Greece
Some places haunt you. I‘m somewhere north of Naxos, somewhere south of Piraeus, surrounded by the low, dry scatter of islands knows as the Cyclades. The larger, inhabited islands clamber out the...
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No Harpoons Left In Greece?
Could he really be one? Could he? I peered over the top of my Greek newspaper as he passed on his third (third!) lap. Sunglasses? Hiding where he’s really looking, of course. Combat pants? “I am man...
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It Doesn’t Mean The Same In Greece
Athens News, 1st June 2007 (read on Naxos, in the sunshine, waiting for lunch to arrive, picking through my Rough Guide and scoffing the free bread. Yes, a tough day).
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Fictional: The Ferries Of Naxos
Only one of these is true. You get to pick which. Option 1 The Mediterranean island of Naxos has a problem – and it’s on a geological scale. The 165 square miles of Naxos (the largest island of...
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Look Closer: The Real-World Filter Challenge
Look closer. What do you see? It’s a hot July day in 2007, and I’m sat on the steps leading up to the Chania lighthouse (see the second photo here), admiring a sea and sky painted in a particularly...
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Suffer Openly: Why Travel Should Be Miserable
Here’s a true story about the importance of misery. Ah, Crete! Fresh off the ferry from Athens, I’m weary but happy. I stagger down the gangplank. Thanks to an overabundance of possessions and a...
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First Time In Athens: Acropolis Now?
Why the Acropolis might be the worst thing to visit on your first day in Athens, Greece. I There’s little to mark the birthplace of Western democracy. If it wasn’t for the rock-cut steps that led you...
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Nafplio: Where Home Tracked Me Down
A story of how I went abroad, and how York followed me. June 2007 Well, I’m not sitting indoors all day. I may have just arrived, I may be recovering from the double-whammy of the worst sunburn and the...
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I Have Special You Like, Yes?
(Originally in Fevered Mutterings v3). This is a story about the importance of marketing. I’m sat in a cafe outside the Hotel Epidavros near Omonia Square, Athens, on a gently roasting July day. I’m...
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My Stomach Belongs To Jannis
Down with breakfast bars. Up with Jannis! Greece, they say, has the best of everything. The seas are the bluest you’ll ever see. The walls are the most blazingly white, as if just specially painted...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Haunted By Half-Seen Greece
Some places haunt you. [dropcap]I[/dropcap]‘m somewhere north of Naxos, somewhere south of Piraeus, surrounded by the low, dry scatter of islands knows as the Cyclades. The larger, inhabited islands...
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No Harpoons Left In Greece?
Could he really be one? Could he? [dropcap]I[/dropcap] peered over the top of my Greek newspaper as he passed on his third (third!) lap. Sunglasses? Hiding where he’s really looking, of course. Combat...
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It Doesn’t Mean The Same In Greece
Athens News, 1st June 2007 (read on Naxos, in the sunshine, waiting for lunch to arrive, picking through my Rough Guide and scoffing the free bread. Yes, a tough day).
View ArticleClik here to view.
Fictional: The Ferries Of Naxos
Only one of these is true. You get to pick which. Option 1 The Mediterranean island of Naxos has a problem – and it’s on a geological scale. The 165 square miles of Naxos (the largest island of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Look Closer: The Real-World Filter Challenge
Look closer. What do you see? [dropcap]I[/dropcap]t’s a hot July day in 2007, and I’m sat on the steps leading up to the Chania lighthouse (see the second photo here), admiring a sea and sky painted...
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Suffer Openly: Why Travel Should Be Miserable
Here’s a true story about the importance of misery. Ah, Crete! Fresh off the ferry from Athens, I’m weary but happy. I stagger down the gangplank. Thanks to an overabundance of possessions and a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
First Time In Athens: Acropolis Now?
Why the Acropolis might be the worst thing to visit on your first day in Athens, Greece. I There’s little to mark the birthplace of Western democracy. If it wasn’t for the rock-cut steps that led you...
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