Tag Archives: Greece
Coming Attractions…
I’m writing this post on an Italian train. I am tired, and it is hot. The train is packed and has no air conditioning. I’m enduring this for you. Travel posts are a big part of the random thoughts you find here. I don’t travel often, but when I do I try and pack in […]
Temple of the Shoe Goddess
When I was in university, one of my classmates had a party that established her reputation for the rest of the year. In the hallway of her apartment, on display for all to see, were her shoes. Forty-five pairs of them. It was only a few months after Imelda Marcos, wife of the Philippine president, […]
The Rules
Some of them make sense. Others I had to wonder about. Millions of people visit the Acropolis in Athens each year. It is one of the busiest tourist sites in the world. If each person took a pebble home as a souvenir, there wouldn’t be much left at the end of the year. Not to […]
View From Above
I glanced out the airplane window and then looked again, concentrating this time. We were flying somewhere over Greece, a place I have never been to before (and still haven’t been – I was only changing planes in Athens). Something about the landscape below struck me, a certain beauty that seemed different, though I’m not […]
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