Category: Miscellaneous (personal)

I know the origin of the saying, “it’s all Greek to me.” Or is the saying, “it looks “it sounds like Greek? The Greek alphabet is indecipherable at first glance. I took a 3-hour bus ride from the port of Patras to Athens. We drove […]

As expected, I took a ferry from Venice to Greece, but that is about the only part of my ferry ride that went as planned. I got to Venice well enough. I got to Venice and it was pouring. I decided that I had to […]

Since I hadn’t gone to Europe in years, this counts as an “event”. I left work early and caught a flight out of JFK. The plane ride was painful. I had a middle seat and the lady sitting to my left was very fat. After […]