Monthly Archive for May, 2008

The World: Two Travelers and Benevolent BUD

Posted in Travel on May 17th, 2008

My watch reads 6:00 a.m. The greyness of the sky is just beginning to lift. This is the coldest part of the day, just at dawn, as the crispness of the morning breeze slowly creeps through my fleece. I shift in my chair, impatient. I am anxious to go.
Around me at the bus station, people [...]

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Athens, Greece: The Euro Ate My Dollar

Posted in Greece on May 12th, 2008

It was with financial fear and trembling we set foot into Greece a few weeks ago. Coming from Turkey (where months before I had selfishly cheered Turkey’s denial into the EU, fearing I might have an early Euro encounter), the dreaded Euro was finally upon us.
I admit, I have known only a world that has [...]

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Corfu Trail, Greece: Trekking Toward Home

Posted in Greece on May 8th, 2008

Odysseus’ last stop before he sailed home to the island of Ithica, and the island home for Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Corfu is the most verdant of Greece’s islands. Sage green olive groves dotted with tall, conical cypress trees smother the rolling hills of the island until the land ends abruptly in the emerald waters [...]

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