Archive for December, 2008
Marozzi: Herodotus is no conventional history
“The Way of Herodotus: Travels With the Man Who Invented History” by Justin Marozzi is one of the year’s best and most engaging travel books. On the face of it, Marozzi’s strategy is a simple one, but it makes all the difference. Marozzi takes that most elegant of classic ::More
Posted in Greece Abroad by Greece Travel Blog
Nothing more exciting than the approach to Athens from the sea
There is probably no more exciting voyage, to any educated man, than the approach to Athens from the sea. Every promontory, every island, every bay, has its history. If he knows the map of Greece, he needs no guide-book or guide to distract him; if he does not, he needs little Greek to ask of any ::More
Posted in Athens by Greece Travel Blog
Two boys sing the Greek Christmas Carols
This is not a studio or in any way ‘professional’ recording; just two ordinary Greek boys singing the traditional Greek Christmas carols: “Good day my lords, and if it be your will, Christ’s the divine birth let me in your palace sing…” Boys all over Greece ::More
Posted in Greece by Greece Travel Blog
Kontoglou, Smiling Enemies 2: At the Holy Mount
Tourism commands everything… In the end there was surrendered to tourism even the great castle of Orthodoxy, the Holy Mount. In that garden of the Mother of God, which, as she wished, no female foot stepped, human or not, now thousands of people come and go from all the races of the world, ::More
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Kontoglou, Smiling Enemies – Tourists of Greece
Tourists visiting Greece are not always (rather seldom) prepared or willing to explore the place with some seriousness. This is known, but travel sites prefer to ignore it, afraid as they are of losing customers. Greece Travel Blog has no such fears, so that in the next few post I will be ::More
