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Beauty is subjective, and history is fleeting. Greece's best quality- really, its defining quality- is the absolute. Greece has a heat like no other,...

Roosters are impatient. The stars are still twinkling softly, but every five beats or so they cry out, sweet and melancholic like a muezzin,...

So Many Islands, So Little Time! Greece offers such a staggering array of experiences to the visitor that panic is a completely reasonable reaction. To...

The Acropolis is at its most majestic at the edges of the day. A favorite family photo captures me at the Parthenon,  chin on my...

  "If you haven't been to Sounio, then we're not discussing anything else." My friend Chrysoula, also a travel blogger, was decisive. It was not so...

Glamorous, laid-back Hydra- in reality just 2 hours from Athens- is actually several significant decades away. There are no cars, no motorcycles, no noise...

Exarchia- haven of ruthlessly independent creative activity- makes me homesick, for a time as much as a place. There is no Starbucks, no Accessorize,...

An enviable hallmark of Mediterranean culture is the civilized role of alcohol, built on aspects of Greek lifestyle worth emulating- Joy: People drink in joy in...

Rebetiko - the urban Greek Blues from Asia Minor that is full of longing and nostalgia - expresses the soul of Thessaloniki. Rebetiko is not...

Is there a single drink more closely associated with Greece than ouzo? Aromatic- softened and whitened with water- it's the classic accompaniment to a...