Traveling is my favorite escape, but when I am not traveling, my next favorite escape is travel memoirs. Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert is one of the first travel memoirs I ever read, and I’ve picked it up many times in the years since to read a few paragraphs or a few pages and…
Driving in Greece is not too difficult if you are a confident driver. Athens is probably the most difficult place to drive with the congested fast-paced traffic, main roads with many lanes, and narrow side streets. Driving outside of Athens is less stressful because the traffic will be drastically less congested, and I find that…
We’ve just finished the most fabulous dinner prepared by the wife of our host in Corinth: eggplant salad, fava bean salad, stuffed peppers, stuffed zucchini, pork and mushrooms over homemade fettucine noodles of the perfect thickness and tasting of the perfect amount of egg. I shouldn’t have eaten the chocolate cake that oozed liqueur when…
The sudden chatter of birds disrupts the quiet as the bells ring out in the city marking the sunrise over Oia. I count the chimes to seven, but the time is 7:17 am; close enough. Sitting on a deck of one of a hundred cave houses nestled into the hillside while overlooking the harbor is…
