Our next stop in our journey was the village or Portaria. While the official elevation for this village is 600 metres above sea level, that’s probably the elevation of the town square. The village is on the slope of Mount Pelion, and you exit at a higher level than you entered when driving up from […]
A Quick Stop In Portaria, Pelion, Greece Read More »
Every day we we are inundated through the media, through some friends, and by environmental activists raging on about plastics. I can’t tell you how many times I have gone grocery shopping and when asked, “Need bags?” and upon nodding and replying “Yes,” being glared at by the silly fool behind me with her ten
I Love Plastic – Regulating Grocery Bags Is Stupid: Here’s Why Read More »
Just over a week ago, I began writing a series (mostly meant to be a photographic record) of our trip from Exarchos to parts of Pelion, Greece. I had entitled the post, “The First Leg…” with a plan that I had in mind at the time, of dividing the trip up into sections – but
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“Does the analysis I’ve just provided promote this rape culture? This is an old saw, which we’ve encountered before. An analysis of pedophilia promotes it. An analysis of terrorism justifies it. And so on. The technical name for people who think this is ‘dumb fucks’. I used to try to disabuse dumb fucks of their
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To many in North America, driving 600 km in a day is not a big deal. Well, it’s still a fair distance, but not something many of us would say “No” to, because of the distance. I know that I used to regularly drive this many km and even more in a day, and while
The First Leg – Thermopyles and Leonidas Read More »
We took a long road trip yesterday – almost 600 km from our “base” near Atalanti into the Pelion region of Greece, and back. More on that along with photos shortly (perhaps a post for each of the places we visited). But first, one of the observations that visitors to Greece comment on is the
Evidence That Cats Own Cars Read More »
Sometimes Google translate does not get things right at all. When I tried to translate the Greek word “Ταξιάρχε” with Google Translate, Google told me it meant “Taxi Drivers.” In fact, the term – Taxiarches – in English/Latin letters refers in Greek Orthodoxy to one or both of the archangels – Michael and/or Gabriel. In
Saints Taxiarches (Άγιοι Ταξιάρχε) Church, Exarchos, Greece Read More »
A random photo when the tripod was not handy… a couple of nights ago, from the balcony.
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Getting packages to Exarchos, Greece is not the easiest thing in the world…. recently, I had occasion to order some photographic lens filters from the United Kingdom. A seller on Ebay had two filters that I wanted for my Nikon D7000 camera, while another seller in Poland had a battery charger for the same camera,
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