Greece

Greece

Four Hundred Pleats

There are 400 pleats in the kilt-like fustanella worn by the Evzones guards who patrol ...

Greece

Charon's Choice

In Greece, everywhere you go and everything you see can easily take on a mythological aura. When you're well-versed in the ancient Greek texts — as a high school philosophy teacher like me was ...

Greece

This Is Not A Pipe

As Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte would say: "Ceci n'est pas une pipe." Resting ...

Greece

Ghost Town Grandeur

On the first of our many trips to Greece, my wife and I drove down to Mystras in the ...

Greece

First Taste Of Greece

This was the first of about a dozen trips to Greece. From ...