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Greece, travel, guideThis site is sort of a journal of my travels or even a journal of when I am not traveling but have nothing better to do. One problem is with my life these days is that I have so many e-mails to answer that keeping any kind of journal is difficult because after answering fifity e-mails asking about ferry schedules, which island is 'better'?, where to eat, who to trust and so on, the last thing I want to do is pour out my innermost thoughts for travelers to read. Usually I just want to take a swim or get a drink or try to find where my family has wandered off to while I was staring at my laptop. But the truth is that when I am traveling in Greece a lot of little things do happen that make interesting reading and that if I don't write them down are often forgotten until I am somehow reminded of them and am nowhere near a computer and then they are forgotten again. So I have organized these writings by the date and the places they cover. Hopefully you will find them useful or at least enjoyable. Unlike the do-it-yourself blogs that most of you are familiar where you start with now and go backwards, this one moves in the same direction as time. So if you want to know what is going on now you should scroll to the bottom.

September 2006
North Carolina
Writing about Greece
is Therapy

June 24 2007
Kea, Greece
Inconvenient Truth
and Aglaia Kremezi

June 30 2007
Syros, Greece
Heat wave too

July 4 2007
Tinos, Greece
Porto Raphael Hotel

July 6 2007
Mykonos Greece
Nose Piercing

July 16 2007
Lesvos, Greece
Sheep, cheese, trachana
and Greek politicians

July 21 2007
Vatousa, Lesvos
Village life and top 10
Lesvos restaurants

July 24 2007
Molyvos, Lesvos
Stephen's Turkey Trip

July 26 2007
At Sea
Worst ship in
the world?

July 29 2007
Chios
, Greece
Mesta, Emborio

August 4 2007
Kea, Greece
From Athens to Kea

August 12 2007
Kea, Greece
Platia Dellapizza

August 23 2007
Athens, Greece
King George Hotel

August 27 2007
North Carolina
The Fires

August 28 2007
North Carolina
The Fires

August 29 2007
North Carolina
The Fires

August 31 2007
North Carolina
The Fires

September 2nd 2007
North Carolina
The Fires

September 21 2007
North Carolina
Greek Elections

October 15 2007
North Carolina
Britannic

November 13 2007
North Carolina
Chios and Tinos Sites

December 14 2007
North Carolina
Computer problems and
NY Greek restaurants

January 25 2008
North Carolina
Christmas and New
Years in Greece

February 15 2008
North Carolina
All My Friends
from Greece Video

February 18 2008
North Carolina
Snow in Athens

February 20 2008
North Carolina
The Greek-American
Curse

April 17 2008
North Carolina
Athens Obama Rally

April 19 2008
North Carolina
Athens Obama Rally

May 28 2008
North Carolina
Talkin Baseball

June 3 2008
North Carolina
Greece is Hell?

June 4 2008
North Carolina
Greek Language Difficulties

June 15 2008
Athens, Greece
Flight to Athens

June 23 2008
Kea, Greece
Swimming,
DSL problems etc

July 3 2008
Kea, Greece
Red Tractor Farms,
George the Taxi Driver,
Undersea photography

July 9 2008
At Sea
From Thessaloniki
to Lesvos

July 11 2008
Xidera, Lesvos
Karpenissi, Trikala, Meteora

July 12 2008
Xidera, Lesvos
Meteora to
Thessaloniki

July 13 2008
Xidera, Lesvos
Halkidiki and
Thessaloniki

July 15 2008
Xidera, Lesvos
Skala Eressos
vs Xidera

July 17 2008
Xidera, Lesvos
Life in remote
island villages

July 18 2008
Athens, Greece
Lesvos to Sifnos (almost)

July 21 2008
Sifnos, Greece
On Loving Greece

July 22 2008
Sifnos, Greece

July 23 2008
Serifos, Greece

July 24 2008
Kythnos, Greece

August 1 2008
Kea, Greece
Barbarians at the Gates

August 3 2008
Kea, Greece
The Complainer

August 10 2008
Kea, Greece
Doujan Zammit and
Greek Tourism

August 11 2008
Kea, Greece
Olympics

August 17 2008
Kea, Greece
Kea Panagiri

August 26 2008
Athens, Greece
Moving to Psyhico
and Prostitutes

September 1 2008
Athens, Greece
Athens Mall

September 4 2008
Athens, Greece
ACS Orientation and
local ouzerie

September 7 2008
Athens, Greece
Schinias and Salamina

September 14 2008
Athens, Greece
Kea and apartment
problems

September 16 2008
Athens, Greece
Pakistanis

September 17 2008
Athens, Greece
Psyhico

September 22 2008
Athens, Greece
Rain and Economic Crisis

September 24 2008
Athens, Greece
Travel Insurance

September 25 2008
Athens, Greece
Sarah Palin

September 26 2008
Athens, Greece
Goudi

September 27 2008
Athens, Greece
Athens News Closing

September 28 2008
Athens, Greece
Madonna, West Side Story
and Back to School Night

September 30 2008
Athens, Greece
Athens News Petition

October 1 2008
Athens, Greece
Brigitte Bakko
and Screwdrivers

October 2 2008
Athens, Greece
Life in Athens

October 6 2008
Athens, Greece
REM

October 7 2008
Athens, Greece
Kifissia, ACS Cruise,
Flisvos Marina

October 9 2008
Athens, Greece
Diakofto, Peloponessos

October 10 2008
Athens, Greece
Microlimano and eating
fish in Pireaus

October 14 2008
Athens, Greece
Anavissos, Porto Rafti, Rafina,
Schinas, Marathon

October 21 2008
Athens, Greece
Mount Parnitha, Oropos,
the Debates, Kea

October 23 2008
Athens, Greece
Automated Booking Sites,
Ambushed in Psyhico

October 23 2008
Athens, Greece
Letter from Hungary

October 28 2008
Athens, Greece
Ochi Day

October 29 2008
Athens, Greece
Kyparissi, Geraki
and Kosmas

October 30 2008
Athens, Greece
The McCain-Palin Strategy

November 4 2008
Athens, Greece
Election Night (morning)

November 19 2008
Athens, Greece
Baseball Players Wanted

November 23 2008
Athens, Greece
Going to Paris,
3 great Athens hangouts

December 2 2008
Athens, Greece
Party on Friday!

December 3 2008
Athens, Greece
Paris Trip

December 5 2008
Athens, Greece
Paris Trip Continued

December 8 2008
Athens, Greece
'Riots' in Athens

December 10 2008
Athens, Greece
'Riots' in Athens

December 12 2008
Athens, Greece
Mythology of Nov 17th

December 14 2008
Athens, Greece
Back in Psiri and Kypseli

January 1 2009
Carrboro, NC
Happy New Year

January 12 2009
Athens, Greece

Back Home

January 13 2009
Athens, Greece

Inside the Parthenon!

January 25 2009
Athens, Greece

Obama, Tavernas, Bars
and Rashidi Graffiti

January 26 2009
Athens, Greece

Don't Be Afraid

January 29 2009
Athens, Greece

Panellinios and the
Search for Meaning

February 5 2009
Athens, Greece

"Athens is a Paradise"

February 19 2009
Athens, Greece

Athens Wine Festival

March 3 2009
Athens, Greece

Apokreas and Ketheri Deftera

March 11 2009
Athens, Greece

Cricket, Pahi, Megara and Strofi

March 12 2009
Athens, Greece

Gida and Cat Stevens

March 16 2009
Athens, Greece

Megapanos Wines, Kainari and Klimataria Restaurants

March 17 2009
Athens, Greece

Marathon, Schinia and Sotiria Leonardou

March 18 2009
Athens, Greece

Cheap Flights to Greece!

March 20 2009
Athens, Greece

Hemingway, Athens, Paris and the Polish Guy

March 24 2009
Athens, Greece

Greek Politicks for Dummies

March 25 2009
Athens, Greece

Happy Independence Day!

March 28 2009
Athens, Greece

A Letter from Ross Daly

April 5th 2009
Chania, Crete

A Week in Western Crete

April 23 2009
Athens, Greece

Jamie Oliver

April 26 2009
Athens, Greece

Benaki Exhibit

April 28 2009
Athens, Greece

Meteora Video

May 4 2009
Athens, Greece

Creative Writing Workshop

May 22 2009
Athens, Greece

Porto Germanos, Ancient Egosthena, Amfiarion

May 23 2009
Athens, Greece

The Road to Agios Konstantinos

June 5 2009
Kea, Greece

Moms, Rough Guide
and Rotten Fish

June 14 2009
Athens, Greece

Pickpockets in Athens

June 20 2009
Athens, Greece

Schools Out- Leonidio, Nafplio and Ancient Nemea

June 21 2009
Athens, Greece

Acropolis Museum Opens

July 14 2009
Lesvos, Greece

Syros, Lesvos and
Tripadvisor Extortionists

July 16 2009
Lesvos, Greece

Exploitation, Smelly Cheese and Mexicans

July 22 2009
Lesvos, Greece

How Many Greeks Does it Take to Change a Flat Tire?

July 23 2009
Lesvos, Greece

A Day in the Life of Matt Barrett

August 3 2009
Athens, Greece

Full Moon on the Acropolis
on Aug 6

August 4 2009
Athens, Greece

GreeceTravel on Facebook

August 5 2009
Athens, Greece

Rashidi Graffiti is back

August 21 2009
Athens, Greece

Attika Department Store

August 24 2009
Athens, Greece

Fires in Attika 2009

August 26 2009
Athens, Greece

New Acropolis Museum

August 28 2009
Athens, Greece

Paradise Lost:
Smyrna 1922

Sept 14 2009
Athens, Greece

Paradise Lost 2:
Aidini 1922-Carrboro 2009

Oct 11 2009
Athens, Greece

George Papandreou Elected Prime Minister

Oct 24 2009
Athens, Greece

Friends of Schinias Beach Clean-up

Nov 5 2009
Durham NC

Leonard Cohen

Nov 18 2009
Durham NC

Dorian Kokas

Dec 2 2009
Carrboro, NC

London Guide

Dec 2 2009
Carrboro, NC

When Giants
Walked the Earth

Jan 25 2010
Carrboro, NC

From PC to Mac and Greece Videos

Feb 8 2010
Carrboro, NC

Watercolor Workshop
 in Kyparissi

Feb 12 2010
Carrboro, NC

How to Solve Greece's Financial Crisis

Feb 13 2010
Carrboro, NC

Etz Hayim Synagogue in Chania, Fire

March 19 2010
Carrboro, NC

Unlicensed Drivers and TA Blackmailers

April 8 2010
Carrboro, NC

Prescription Drugs in Greece

April 21 2010
Carrboro, NC

Earth Day Cleanup – April 25th

April 30 2010
Carrboro, NC

Defeating the Pick-Pockets

May 5 2010
Carrboro, NC

What the Heck is Happening in Greece!!!!????

May 6 2010
Carrboro, NC

Is Greece Safe?

June 1 2010
Athens, Greece

Back in Athens

June 2 2010
Athens, Greece

A Night in Exarchia

June 4 2010
Kea, Greece

Crisis in Lavrion

June 10 2010
Kea, Greece

Andy Horton, Rain, Rick Steves and the Greek Constitution

June 13 2010
BlueStar Paros, Greece

The Rabbit Trip to Paros

June 15 2010
Ferry Aqua Jewel, Greece

Paros and Antiparos

June 25 2010
Athens, Greece

The Odyssey of John Psaropoulos

June 28 2010
Kea, Greece

Matt Barrett on Strike

June 30 2010
Kea, Greece

The Violence in Athens

July 1 2010
Kea, Greece

A Tribute to George the Famous Taxi Driver

July 18 2010
Lesvos, Greece

All Rabbit News All the Time

July 21 2010
Lesvos, Greece

Tryfon's and Western Lesvos

July 24 2010
Lesvos, Greece

Krinello's Paradise, Moni Pytharia and Methymnaos Winery

August 7 2010
Cavo d Oro, Greece

The Rabbit and the Wall Street Journal Interview

August 25 2010
C
hapel Hill, NC

With Rick Steves in Athens

November 17th 2010
C
hapel Hill, NC

Novernber 17th and Today

January 21 2011
Chapel Hill, NC

Life (and death) with Squirrels

February 10 2011
Chapel Hill, NC

Squirrels Pt 2 and 3 Greek Films

February 21 2011
Chapel Hill, NC

'The Weeping Meadow' Film Review

March 9 2011
Chapel Hill, NC

Corinne Chandler of AthensLiving.net

April 26 2011
Chapel Hill, NC

Nikos Papazoglou and the Modern Greeks

May 20 2011
Chapel Hill, NC

Flashback: Undersea Adventures
and Epiphany

May 21 2011
Chapel Hill, NC

Flashback: The Grande Bretagne

June 8 2011
Chapel Hill, NC

Acorns? Yes! Acorns!

June 16 2011
Athens, Greece

Back Home in Athens!

June 20 2011
Kea, Greece

Revolution and Fish Tales

June 21 2011
The Guardian: Greece Tourism Thriving

June 24 2011
Kea, Greece

Weekdays in Kea

June 25 2011
Athens, Greece

Typical Night Out in Athens

June 26 2011
European Express

Sailing to Lesvos

July 2 2011
Vatousa, Lesvos

The Latest from Athens and Lesvos

July 3 2011
Vatousa, Lesvos

Whatever Happened to the Greek Church?

July 4 2011
Vatousa, Lesvos

Drunken Horses and Dehydration

July 6 2011
Vatousa, Lesvos

Simple Village Life

July 9 2011
Vatera Beach, Lesvos

Thoughts at Sea

July 10 2011
Vatousa, Lesvos

How to Eat
Sardeles Pastes

July 13 2011
European Express

Farewell to Lesvos

July 21 2011
Kea, Greece

Another Day in Kea

July 22 2011
Kea, Greece

2 More Greece Videos

July 24 2011
Athens, Greece

Greek Medical Week

July 26 2011
Athens, Greece

The Immigrant Problem in Greece

July 30 2011
Kea, Greece

A Story by John Marlowe

August 10 2011
Kea, Greece

Del's Terrace/Taxi Strike

October 5 2011
Athens, Greece

Crisis Week in Greece

October 10 2011
Athens, Greece

Evia and Kypseli Purse-snatching

October 11 2011
Athens, Greece

Ellada: I Miss You Already

October 23 2011
Athens, Greece

A Short Visit to Istanbul

December 29 2011
Carrboro, NC

Istanbul Site is Done!

January 1 2012
Carrboro, NC

Life Goes On!

January 31 2012
Carrboro, NC

That's Greece

February 1 2012
Creative Writing in Andros with Robert Olen Butler

February 12 2012
Hire a Greek

April 1 2012
From the USS Enterprise

May 13 2012
Recreate Greece

May 14 2012
A New Greece?
Sign Me Up

May 21 2012
Back in Athens!

May 24 2012
The Acropolis Rally

May 30 2012
New Psiri Restaurants, Bars and Politics

May 31 2012
My New Best Friend in Kea

June 5 2012
Agios Pnevmatos in Kea

June 7 2012
Life and Death in Kea

June 17 2012
THEY HAD TO WIN

July 25 2012
Greece News Roundup

July 28 2012
The Lost Turkey Blog

July 29 2012
Lost Turkey 2: Ag Sofia

August 15 2012
A Room with a View

August 20 2012
Back in the USA

December 11 2012
Greece Photo Tour

December 17 2012
Good News from Athens

Dec 21 2012
How to make it big on Tripadvisor...

Dec 26 2012
The Hidden War

Jan 6 2013
Easter in Lesvos

New Greek News
Site in English

April 1 2013
Matt's GreeceTravel Guide Sold

New Film by Val Kontakos

Project Hope for Greece

Why You Should Visit Greece this Summer

May 14 2013
Back to Greece!

     

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