Archive for October, 2008
My trip to Karpathos
Searching for an island, ironically, becomes exponentially more daunting as one eliminates the places that magnetise the Greece-going herd: Santorini with its honeymoon sunsets, Mykonos with its prefabricated hedonism, and Rhodes with its package tourist compounds and poolside fitness instruction ::More
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Romanian-Italian Conference on Byzantine iconography
The conference ‘Late Byzantine celebrations of the human and the image‘ presented the theological and philosophical fundamentals of the Byzantine iconography, representing the patrimony of a common inheritance of the Romanian culture of the fifteenth and sixteenth century and of the ::More
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Seeing wonders in Peloponnese
After a fortnight in the Peloponnese we have become used to seeing wonders in the most unexpected places but nothing prepares us for what lies inside. After all, this village of Geraki does not feature in any of our guidebooks and we have stumbled on it quite by chance driving towards the coast ::More
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Panic in the streets of Patra
The actual port of Patra is surrounded by high fences and barb wire. But once you exit the port to get to the city you have to walk along the fence line for about 1/2 a kilometer. What we saw along that narrow strip was incredible. Immigrants stow-away on ships coming from Turkey, Afghanistan, ::More
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If you want to quit smoking, first understand the problem
We search for magical pills or substitutes, we even invented electrical cigarettes!, when all we need to do in order to stop smoking is just this: stop smoking! It is as easy as it sounds!, provided we have understood the problem. This is the secret, to know the problem. Very few people ::More
