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Want To Travel Locally? Walk!

Posted on May 15, 2010 by Joel in Follow The Idiot, Greece, Idiotic Musings, Mediterranean Pix | 12 Comments

One reason that I’ve walked over 6,700 kilometers around the Mediterranean Sea is to connect with local communities and be exposed to new people, places, cultures, cuisine, ideas and socio-political idiosyncrasies. Though I hope to circumnavigate the entire sea within twenty years, which is the amount of time it took Odysseus to

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The MedTrekking Idiot Gets Sidetrekked to Malta

Posted on May 13, 2010 by Joel in Follow The Idiot, Mediterranean Pix, MedTrekking | 10 Comments

Saturday morning update Cloudy daybreak from my $50 hotel room in Sliema, Malta, as I prepare to head to Gozo after breakfast. Incidentally, there is a Calypso in Gozo. In fact, immediately upon my arrival she arranged for my $50 Expedia-booked room at the Grand Hotel overlooking the harbor to be upgraded to

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Would You Want To See Contemporary Art Exhibited In A Classical Setting?

Posted on May 11, 2010 by Joel in Follow The Idiot, Mediterranean Pix, MedTrekking | 23 Comments

What’s going to continue causing a heated debate and culture clash at the Valley of the Temples in Sicily’s gigantic Agrigento archeological site until October 3? An exhibit called “Contemporary Art for the Temple of Zeus” that prominently displays

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A Dancing Satyr Prompted These Photographs

Posted on May 11, 2010 by Joel in Follow The Idiot, Mediterranean Pix, MedTrekking | 4 Comments

The first place I went when I MedTrekked into Mazara del Vallo, a seaside town in northwestern Sicily that has a delightfully laidback North African feel about it, was to the two-room

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Finding Odysseus on the Egadi Islands

Posted on May 10, 2010 by Joel in Follow The Idiot, Mediterranean Pix, MedTrekking | 19 Comments

I’m not the only one who believes that Odysseus and his crew feasted on a herd of goats on one of the three Egadi Islands in

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What A Bella Ragazza Siciliana Thinks of My List of “Why Are Sicilian Guys The Most Macho Men On Earth?”

Posted on May 8, 2010 by Joel in Follow The Idiot, Idiotic Musings | 6 Comments

I knew I was in trouble when I heard that there was an Italian translation of my blog item about “Why Are Sicilian Guys The Most Macho Men On Earth?” circulating on the Internet. I’d

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