After spending just under a week exploring Greece’s steamy capital city, I was ready to hit the road–or should I say sea–in search of some Greek island magic. Over the course of twelve days, we’d be exploring a total of five…
13 Delectable Greek Foods I’d Fly Back to Greece For in a Heartbeat
I must owe the fact that I left Greece without gaining 20 pounds to some sort of miracle–I could’ve sworn at least 75% of my time there was spent eating. My love affair with Greek food began the moment I arrived…
This is MY Athens: Not Your Average Walking Tour
Every once in awhile, I find myself in a city I never would have visited otherwise simply because a dear friend has chosen to make their home there. I probably wouldn’t have road-tripped to Portland last summer, for instance, had…
Why the Nomadic Lifestyle Can’t Last
“I want to travel forever.” Be honest–you’ve thought this before. All travelers like to fantasize about living a nomadic lifestyle indefinitely. Perhaps you’ve even gone so far as to verbalize this desire to other nomads, knowing they’d empathize with the…
Think You Know Athens? Think Again.
Grisis. Grexit. Greferendum. If I didn’t love portmanteaus so damn much, the media coverage of the Greek debt crisis (the aforementioned Grisis) would be making my eyes bleed. But I do love portmanteaus, and, as of my recent visit to…
Month in Review: June 2015
By the time June rolled around, I’d already been exploring Greece, my 23rd country, for nearly two weeks–and this was just the beginning of my whirlwind tour. I don’t think I slept in the same bed more than 2 nights…
Medellín, Colombia: My Favorite Things
Not sure what to do in Medellín, Colombia? I understand–it’s a big city, and knowing where to start can be tough, especially if you’ve got limited time to spend there. But never fear, because today is your lucky day. I’ve…
Eating My Way Through Catalonia: My Top 5 Gastronomic Experiences
While I’m sure it comes as no surprise that during my time in Spain I quite literally ate my body weight in traditional Spanish foods like cured meats, local cheeses, tortilla Española and so forth, I also made an effort…
La Sagrada Família: A Church 133 Years in the Making
Every so often, I have an experience that gives me more feelings than I know what to do with, and many of these feelings I simply cannot put into words. In these instances, I must concede that a flowery, romantic…
Traditional Winemaking at Mas Molla Winery
At Mas Molla Winery in Calonge, Catalonia, the word you’ll hear time and again is “tradition.” In a winemaking world where techniques are changing and evolving faster than you can say “stainless steel fermentation tank,” it takes a mountain of…
