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Haze White, a New Zealander I met while MedTrekking on the Ionian Island of Ithaca in Greece, just reminded me how amused she was when I proudly displayed the copious variety of drugs that I carry around the Mediterranean Sea. “I thought of you because I’ve just started taking a multivitamin every
An avid follower of the Follow The Idiot blog approached me at The Stanford Bookstore, where I was gleefully pimping and selling copies of “The Idiot and the Odyssey: Walking the Mediterranean” during last Sunday’s rainy afternoon, and asked for a list of books I’d consulted or read while researching and
It’s hard to beat walking on the Mediterranean seaside but a serendipitous sidetrek in the Peloponnese to alluring spots like Sparta and Epidauros can be equally exhilarating. And although the Idiot usually has a serious mission when he veers off the unbeaten coastal path, it’s invariably altered when he reaches
Every Greek school kid is well enough versed in the classics to know that Paris, the besotted Trojan prince, first slept with Helen, the unfaithful Queen of Sparta, on the island of Kranai before whisking her home to Troy 3,205 years ago. Their fateful frolic and reckless spree led, of course, to
“Inhospitable” is everyone’s favorite adjective to describe the heathen terrain and hostile topography of the southwestern coast of the Mani Peninsula in the Peloponnese. Indeed, the beautiful region is so stark, barren, rocky, cliffy, windswept, arid and remote that six new words are being invented in contemporary Greek each year
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