When you’re stuck in a completely foreign third-world country where nobody speaks your language and the entire place is shut down due to strikes and riots, there’s only one thing to do: pick a new country where they aren’t on strike!
Romania’s not too far away and I’ve never been there, so next week I’m heading [...]
Not content to merely sit back and let everyone be inconvenienced by their strike, Greece’s civil servants marched on the capital today protesting the proposed pension plan changes started a fight and the cops ended up shooting a bunch of tear gas to break it up. From the BBC:
In central Athens, police fired tear gas [...]
I had an unexpectedly awesome St. Patrick’s Day in Athens. The two guys that I spend most of my time with here are from Holland and Britian, so the Dutch guy doesn’t care about St. Patrick and the British guy rolls his eyes at the mention of anything Irish. Greece is something like 98% Greek [...]
Greece seems to have gone on strike. First the utility workers went on strike, so the power sporadically goes out all over Piraeus. Then the garbage workers went on strike so there is garbage piled up all over the city. Next the railworkers went on strike so the trains aren’t running half the time. Finally, [...]
One thing that I’ve heard repeatedly since arriving in Athens is that it never snows here since it’s too warm and we’re too close to the sea. It might snow in the villages and in the north, but it’d never snow in Athens itself.
You can imagine my surprise when I came back to Athens from [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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