Tag: greece
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268 | Unexpected :: Athens, Greece, 2013
Found a familiar face in Athens and had to take a pic with him!
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261 | Signs :: Santorini, Greece, 2013
Everybody needs to hire the artist who made the Donkey Station sign.
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159 | Cats :: Santorini, Greece, 2013
This cat hails from a tiny island off of the coast of Santorini. The island was deserted since I was there during off season, and we saw more cats than people. They seemed very comfortable in their environment and watched us with lazy but alert eyes (“don’t mess with me and I won’t mess with…
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149 | Dogs :: Satorini, Greece, 2013
All the travel guides will tell you to go early so you can find a good spot to watch the famous Oia sunset. When we got to the wall where everyone takes that postcard shot, it was already full of people. But the best spot was actually taken by 3 dogs, just sitting on the…
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015 | Flora :: Santorini, Greece, 2013
We went to Santorini to see the postcard sunrise of Oia, but it was not meant to be. Zeus, who controls the clouds among other things, was not in the best mood that weekend. The next morning I headed down to the shore to catch a day tour to a nearby island. It was an…
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Gods in Ruins
I distinctively recall receiving my first copies of the Illiad and the Odyssey. The former was dark green and the latter a deep shade of maroon, both with simple line drawings of warriors on the cover. They were Chinese translated versions of course, and simplified for the young reader that I was. Of the two I preferred…
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The Not So Brilliant Colors of Santorini
We had high hopes for Santorini, the only island we were staying on this trip. Everyone’s seen the iconic photo of the Oia sunset, and for some reason we thought, you know, it was just an everyday thing. Nope. There is a reason why tourist seasons exist. It’s the time of the year where the…