Eleven million people and 140 million olive trees. That’s Greece: a rocky, mountainous landscape covered with olive and orange trees with houses and whole towns built into cliffsides. An earthquake every two weeks or so (we felt two), economic turmoil, and still they hang on. If nothing else, Greeks are tenacious. Continue reading
Athens
A Man Walks into a Camera Store…
A man walks into a camera store and asks, “Can I get a quote?”. The clerk replies, “I can’t give you a quote, but I can sing you an aria.” Continue reading
Geiá sas Hellas (Hello Greece)
So, we have now been in Greece for a week. Hard to believe as the time has just flown by, despite the fact that we have used this week to slow down, catch up on blogs, homework, and other such stuff. Well, that’s not entirely true – we have managed to squeeze in a bit of ‘in the field’ learning. Continue reading
