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I am sitting in a café called Panama Hotel Tea House adjacent to the hotel with the same name – a historic house previously occupied by Japanese. I don’t know the details, but this entire district is called Asia town and there are black and white pictures on the wall showing Asians [...]
Greece revisited. Part 5: Looters in Athens
The title is certainly not giving the city justice, with its charming old town, historic sites, faboulous market streets and great restaurants, and the many different neighbourhoods it has to offer. Sadly though, the highlight of our stay in Athens was not the city, but what happened right on the [...]
Greece revisited. Part 4: Salt Lake City
You are wondering why I am continuing the series after a month, already back in Germany? The next story will tell you. After we left Kastrosikia and Ammotopos behind us, we continued our road trip down South towards Athens, with a one night stop at two old friends’ house in Missolonghi. Leros [...]
Greece revisited. Part 3: Meeting the family
By the time we reached my uncle’s house we had already stopped by or greeted a couple of my father’s friends or distant relatives on the way and had had a small lunch at my great uncle Christos’ place, who by 12 was already drunk and insisted on serving us some Tiropita and [...]
Greece revisited. Part 2: Peeking into Greek Orthodoxy
There is more to tell about Kastrosikia before leaving for Ammotopos. So today was “Good Friday” (which I find kind of inappropriate considering that Jesus kind of died this day…”Black Friday” would be more adequate but that’s already taken by the retail [...]
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