Tag: Athens

We tend to get so busy in life that we never slow down and investigate incredible things all around us. Well today, I decided to stop for a moment and check out the Old City Cemetery in Athens, Alabama. I’ve driven by it many times and noticed it was very old — but I hadn&rs...

Ancient Athens is often referred to as the birthplace of Western thought. Whilst we have a lot to thank the Athenians for in terms of the invention of education as we know it, critical thinking, science, democracy, technology and architecture, everyday life looked a lot different back then. There we...

Diving headfirst into Athens’ real estate world is akin to that unpredictable Dutch rain you never see coming. One day, it’s a sunny opportunity, and the next, it’s a downpour of challenges. But, as with every adventure, the thrills are in those unexpected turns. Athens isn&rsqu...

In General What do you wanna hear first? The good or the bad? The bad — overall, restaurants didn’t give me the impression they have much knowledge about gluten. The good — you can still eat because the greek cuisine isn’t based around gluten anyway. Just ask for the...

After my emotional post talking about seeing the Acropolis and Parthenon from afar I thought I would now share our experience of seeing it all up close and personal. We decided to go and visit the site on our third day in Athens and set off nice and early to make sure we had a full day to tak...

In May of this year, my two closest friends and I embarked on a ten-day trip to Greece. First, we spend five days in Athens, then we headed on to Paros. We had a wonderful time exploring Greek history and experiencing the famous Greek hospitality for ourselves. We especially had a wonderful ...

Clearly Athens has been going through it as of late. The 2009 financial crisis and the subsequent underthought austerity measures put in place by the IMF crippled the country’s economy, and hit its capital hard. Due to this, things got cheaper for foreigners, and huge amoun...

This is the story of my arduous journey of ten days that brought me from my lower-middle-class suburban Chicago neighborhood to Denver, Colorado to Columbus, Ohio to the town where my son now resides, and then back again. It was an expensive, time-consuming, hot and humid, coughing fit-inducing, ...