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My Big Fat Greek Holiday: Athens
We went to Athens as the last stop on our Greek holiday with the family. After hearing mixed reviews about Athens, we decided to visit Athens as a long stop-over on our way…
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My Big Fat Greek Holiday: Santorini
The next stop on our family holiday is to the spectacular island of Santorini in the south Aegean Sea. Santorini epitomises the quintessential Greek holiday — dramatic cliffside villages, dazzling beaches, white-washed blue-domed…
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My Big Fat Greek Holiday: Crete
Kenz and I just returned from a week long family holiday to the Greek Isles with my older sister and her husband in town from Hong Kong and my kid sister from California…
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Open Air Theatre at Regent’s Park
“Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in…
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The Balancing Act: Revolt in Syria and Assad’s Choices
A few months ago when the pro-democracy revolutions of the Arab Spring toppled the long established autocracies in Tunisia and Egypt, I turned my attention to the wave of protests that were occurring…
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Old Friends, New Places: Ljubljana and Lake Bled, Slovenia
Sometimes life leads you to places you never imagined you would go. Unbelievably, it was almost fourteen years ago this summer that I had the opportunity to spend two months in Japan on…
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The Royal Wedding
As I mentioned in my previous post, we get an extra Bank Holiday this year to celebrate the marriage of Prince William and Catherine Middleton. For the past 5 months, the Royal Wedding…
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Easter in København
One of the perks of living across the pond is that we get Good Friday and Easter Monday so most of us in Europe get a nice long four-day weekend for Holy Week.…
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Leipzig: An Update from the former East Germany
With Portugal following Ireland and Greece as the latest eurozone member to request a bailout from the European Union (with Spain faltering economically and Italy collapsing politically in its own increasingly strange ways)…
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Le printemps à Paris
Three days after returning from Brazil, Kenz and I found ourselves once again in the City of Lights for a short weekend. It is very rare that I join Kenz on one of…
