Tag Archives: Europe

Walking around Athens

Since everyone’s been asking what Athens is like and bugging me to post pictures, I finally got off my rear end and uploaded a few. You can check out the Athens photo gallery.
I labeled them in iPhoto right after I uploaded them, which means the captions didn’t make it online. Doh! The Athens photos are [...]

Adventures With Laundry

Adventures With Laundry

Sadly, this isn’t the kind of adventure where you go in a sewer and laundry attacks you but you kill it with your flashlight.
When I got this apartment in Athens, it came with a washing machine in it which I assumed would make it easier for laundry. Unfortunately for me, all the buttons and switches [...]

A Fake Night Out in Athens

I’ve been in Athens for about 3 weeks now and since my command of the Greek language could be described as something less than masterful, I’ve been trying to meet some young english-speaking people or expats I could hang out with. I was a little surprised to find that there is a craigslist for Athens, [...]

Now I’m in Athens?

Make the world stop spinning! Well, I’ve moved again and now I ended up in Athens.
Slightly nicer in that it’s a big city and not quite as expensive as Switzerland, slightly less nice because it’s Athens.
It’s always interesting trying to make long term plans when from month to month I’m not even sure what country [...]

New Years in Eastern Europe

For New Years I want to try something different, so I’ve decided to go some place I’ve never been before: Eastern Europe. For selecting a location, I used a very detailed method for narrowing down the process. I went to google, searched for fun new year’s locations in the world, and Prague was at the [...]

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