Thu 2 Jul 2009
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That’s a main reason we travel—to discover a place so healthy, magnetic and invigorating that we want to take care of it. It’s how I first felt so long ago when my father and I plunged deep beneath the waves of his childhood beach. Even in the muted light of the sea, the seascape was clear: ::More
Wed 1 Jul 2009
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David Byrne together with 10 musicians and dancers will be in Athens for a show (July 6th, Badminton theatre – you can get tickets online). David Byrne will perform some of his greatest songs, in an attempt for a concert version of the Talking Heads movie “Stop Making ::More
Mon 29 Jun 2009
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Where does one begin to introduce Athens – a city which birthed democracy itself, that continued to shape European history and philosophy for centuries after its decline, and most importantly, continues to even today host some of the best Moussaka ever (one day I will make a shrine to this ::More
Mon 29 Jun 2009
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Oia is a beautifully restored village dramatically perched on a steep cliff – an image that graces the covers of most Greek Island guidebooks. En route to Oia, we got to enjoy the Santorini countryside. Santorini is a volcanic island and thus most of the sand is black or red. These colours ::More
Sat 27 Jun 2009
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My wife and I are having drinks in a patio bar perched on a ledge of a still-active volcano on the Greek island of Santorini. It’s a spectacular 300-metre drop to the royal blue lagoon below us. Hard to imagine that buried beneath that same lagoon lurks the still-throbbing heart of a killer ::More
