The Ferry and Bari

After our night of excitement in Athens, it was time to start the real deal: leave the country and not look back for three weeks while we covered as much of the continent as our Railpasses would allow. After prying ourselves out of bed early (except Di, who left even earlier that morning), we packed [...]

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Dear blog,
I’m sorry I’ve been neglecting you lately. I actually have something kind of important to tell you: I’ve been seeing someone else.
Now, don’t freak out. It’s over. It was a one-time thing. I can’t help it if my professors want me to write about John Searle and philosophy of language. And that one time, [...]

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Athens, Night Three (hundred euros)

Well, last time I promised you a little bit about my traveling companions. These are some of the few people I would ever consider spending 20 consecutive days with.
I met Tina, Jon and Kyle during orientation, which was like the third day I was here. Our program took us out to lunch after a bus [...]

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Spring Break, Days 1-3: Athens, Greece

Sorry it took me so long to start chronicling the awesomeness that was spring break. I went back to school on Monday and made a terrible discovery: after three months of virtual vacation, my professors actually want me to think again. It sent my brain into overload, and I’m just now recovering enough to be [...]

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It’s not all Greek to me (anymore)

So, I’m officially back from my spring break mega-tour of Europe. I’ve been unofficially back since Thursday, recovering from lack of sleep and catching up on Grey’s Anatomy. In a nutshell, it was great. Even though all didn’t go as planned, I wouldn’t have had it any other way. So, keep checking back for stories [...]

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I’m taking a break from studying for my Greek midterm to deliver the sad news: no more updates for three weeks. The good news? It’s because it’s SPRING BREAK. And I’m taking Europe by storm!
Three weeks, six countries: Italy, France, The Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and Germany. We’re headed to Athens for a school trip on [...]

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The Magnificent Monasteries of Meteora

Well, two weekends ago I knocked another World Heritage site off my list of things to see before I leave: the Meteora Monasteries. We left on a Saturday morning and took a bus to Trikala, a small city about a half-hour away from the monasteries. We had lunch and walked around, then hopped back in [...]

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Istanbul (Constantinople), part deux

The conclusion of my Istanbul (Constantinople) adventures.
But first, a cultural note: Greek people freak out when you call the city I was in Istanbul. To the Greeks, it will always be Constantinople– the name it had before it fell under the rule of Ataturk (the guy responsible for the Greco-Turkish war). Evidently the name of [...]

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Istanbul, part one.

Here’s your first installment of my Istanbul adventures…
So, one time, when I was twenty, I went to Istanbul for a long weekend. We took a bus there, which was cool because it was a double-decker bus (I had never been on one of those before), but wasn’t cool because we were on this double-decker bus [...]

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Well, it’s Wednesday afternoon here in Thessaloniki, and according to my weather forecast, its sunny refreshingly crisp and cool. I would have gone for unseasonably cold, but whatev. It’s definitely an improvement over rainy and dreary like it has been since Thursday. I heard a rumor that it doesn’t rain at all here in the [...]

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