It’s been almost a year since The Idiot hosted a dinner inside a restaurant (“A place where people pay to not social distance and eat someone else’s food”) and to recall the variety of food available on earth during the isolating pandemic he tends to think of the cuisine in the countries he visited during his 20-year-walk around the Mediterranean Sea. Read more
The Idiot has had a special feeling about Valentine’s Day since 2013 when the romantic event was commemorated with the publication of The Idiot and the Odyssey II: Myth, Magic and Madness on the Mediterranean, the simultaneous release of the book’s award-winning promotional trailer and the kickoff of an uproarious collection of reactions from critical and less critical readers.
Although he has since completed his 20-year-walk around the Mediterranean Sea and published the third volume in The Idiot and the Odyssey trilogy of travel narratives, The Idiot reread the entire series during the pandemic and was impressed by the confluence of technology and travel in The Idiot and the Odyssey II: Myth, Magic and Madness on the Mediterranean.
Here are just a few of the places that he walked in Italy, Malta, Greece and Turkey that you can now visit by reading The Idiot and the Odyssey II and not taking a single step. Read more
Baby Gaga, The Idiot’s 3.36-year-old trilingual granddaughter, and Baby Gogo, The Idiot’s nine-month-old trinational grandson, fled Los Angeles and took their parents to the south of France in January to switch locales during the pandemic.
Here’s what they did to keep out of trouble on the French Riviera. Read more
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