blogs about athens

Erratically Hellenic, yet Unexpectedly Arabic: Index

jani — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 08:09:08 -0700

An index of a miniature odyssey through Greece (Athens, Hydra) and the United Arab Emirates (Dubai, Abu Dhabi).

Erratically Hellenic: Epeisodion δ

jani — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 03:29:31 -0700

Alas, my time in Greece was cut short, so instead of a full-fledged epeisodion this will only be a capsule summary of the two places I had time to visit.

Erratically Hellenic: Epeisodion β

jani — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 07:05:00 -0700

My first night in Athens, I set off on a quixotic quest for a quintessentially Greek food: souvlaki. I do this more often than I should, fixating on something that I think should be representative of local cuisine and usually finding out after hours of searching that, in fact, it's out of season or, worse yet, totally out of fashion.

Erratically Hellenic: Epeisodion α

jani — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 06:44:23 -0700

Unfortunately, my flight landed half an hour too early. Dawn was breaking as we descended, but the islands of the Aegean were only visible as dark blobs speckled with the occasional lighthouse, and before I knew it we had touched down at Eleftherios Venizelos International, Athens.

I've been waiting

lisap — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 21:00:00 -0700

In an internet cafe in Athens, up on the second floor (by myself, and not getting pickpocketed), I've got the Afghan Whigs on the iPod, and I couldn't be happier.