To the motherland! We hail from Lithuania on my Mother’s side. I grew up eating pierogies and sour rye bread when my Grammie would visit from Wilkes-Barre, PA where her father arrived in the early 20th century to work in coal…
Greece and Austria Day 9 – New Year’s Eve in Vienna
New Year’s Eve! Our home in Vienna is the Intercontinental. It’s a very nice hotel, which I got with points from the time IHG gave us a million points (about 30 or so free room nights) when we did the short film…
Greece Day 7-8 – Snow in Athens, lots of penises, ‘Ninny and Fidlar’
At least today we intend to start late. Yesterday turned out to be long, despite a very slow and argumentative start. Today we start late with intent, and will keep it short. The rains are harder and colder today. Fortunately…
Day 5 A day in ancient Athens
“Does this get on our top ten list?” Emma asks, as I pull all my gear out of my bag. It went from hot to cold in the space of 30 minutes and I need to get warm despite the…
Greece – Day 3-4 From the high heavens to the center of the earth at Delphi
Eggs, cheese, bread and Nescafe again. It’s monotonous but adequate. In fact it’s a very nice breakfast, but we don’t eat cold cuts, honey drenched pastries and olives for breakfast much. Emma gets cornflakes. Lily struggles the most. Oddly, she…