Life & Culture

  • Unhappy Trains

    There are things about Athens that I love, many things in fact. I am a…
  • Sweating in the City

    The heat is on. This is, clearly, an understatement. The temperatures of the last week…
  • Ellados Ikones

    I’ve been called a 'beach snob' by many of my friends. I heard it again…
  • Island Cruising

    This weekend I did something quite special – unplanned and unexpected... One of my cousins…
  • A Day in Hydra

    Sometimes the best part of a week in Athens… is a day spent away from…
  • A Matter of Time

    Learning to tell time is a great challenge when we’re young – the hours, the…
  • In the News...

    Apparently this crisis is over. And apparently the whole thing was one giant mistake made…
  • Online Everything

    Summertime temperatures and sunny skies are all well and good. But it occurred to me…
  • Jam Packed Sunday

    To counter-balance the ‘do nothing’ days of the past weekend, Sunday turned into a jam-packed…
  • My Week in Athens… May 23

    An easy weekend in the city… Well-deserved and quite overdue! The beautiful spring (summer?!) weather…