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Well, we missed most of the May Day celebrations, or the ones that didn’t get canceled because of the rain, anyway. I suppose our aversion to the drizzly rain and freezing wind at 5:00 in the morning points to a certain lack of dedication as far as out touristy bravado goes, but frankly I’m not […]

We’re about to leave the room, so this will be a short post. We woke up this morning at 4:45 to go to the May Day celebration and it was raining. We went back to sleep. So now it’s sun-shiny and we’re headed out. Full post tonight on our touristy exploits. Oxford is a weird […]

We just arrived back in England. Tomorrow we head out to Oxford. The hotel we are staying at charges by the hour for internet service, so instead of paying their stupid fees I’ve got the laptop balanced on the window sill leaching off of an unsecured network. The B&B we’ll be staying at in Oxford […]

Today we visited the Temple of Apollo and the ancient monuments at Delphi. The modern day Delphi has only been in existence since the 19th century, when interest in the ruins of ancient Delphi began to increase in the archeological community. Russia, America, and France all expressed a desire to excavate the site, but in […]

Today we took a bus from Athens to Delphi, which took about three hours. As we left the bustling city of Athens and progressed further into the mountains the roads got more and more narrow. Our bus bounced over the pot-hole littered road, and on one side of us the mountain rose high into the […]

Today we visited the ancient Agora of Athens. While the Acropolis functioned as the primary location for all religious activities in ancient Greece, the ancient Athenians would enter the Agora for any number of reasons-ranging from the desire to work out in the enormous gymnasium, purchase goods at any one of the local shops, or […]

Yesterday we walked all over central Athens. We went shopping, drank a few Nescafes, bought some souvenirs and spent the day quite leisurely. Athens is a strange place. From an archeological and historical viewpoint it’s one of the birthplaces of modern civilization. The ancient Greeks developed an organized society, they invented Democracy, they valued art […]

No bloggery until tonight, my time. Check back then.

We’ve experienced a bit of a culture shock after having traveled from Italy into Greece. In Italy it seemed like every Italian owned a well-trained, beautifully groomed dog that they brought with them everywhere they went. Most shops and restaurants don’t even bat an eye when a patron walks in with a puppy companion and […]

I got suckered into buying stuff from a market again. Today we had planned to take it easy and leisurely stroll around the Pantheon and Piazza Navona before catching our flight out of Rome. When we got to Via Dei Fori Imperiali we saw that the street had been blocked off and some kind of […]