Greece

Greece revisited. Part 4: Salt Lake City

04/06/2016

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

03/05/2016

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

29/04/2016

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 [...]

Greece revisited. Part 1: Kastrosikia

29/04/2016

Back to Greece, my father’s home, after many years. The last time I had been to Greece was before I went abroad and came back, before I started my own business and failed, before the end of my almost-marriage, before burying my idea to have kids, before the Greek financial crisis, before [...]