Saturday, 23 January 2010

I'm on a roll - more published work



Have a look at my second published review. Now the pressure is on to keep writing them!

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2558063/the_grand_bazaar_istanbul_turkey.html?cat=16

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Tuesday, 5 January 2010

Clever me - my first published article

Check out my first ever review published on the net:

Istanbul - a Greek South African's Experience
My Greek family insisted that I never step foot in Turkey as Istanbul rightfully belongs to Greece; none of us were to go there until the city was given back to us!
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Friday, 1 January 2010

Lost in Travel Agent Translation

In order to go on the Athens-in-one-day cruise I had to get to the port of Pireaus and find my boat. Here are the directions from Niko the travel agent...



Wtf right? But despite my fears I didnt get horribly lost!

Wednesday, 30 December 2009

Tzust one filachi sou yia valsamo


Clubbing in Crete. Forget a condom dispenser, I mean who is gonna get any action with vomit breath? Ta daaaaa for only 1 euro you too can disguise your drunkeness and pretend you never made a call on the porcelain telephone! A toothbrush with toothpaste, no water needed?....genius!

Hello Hello?


I bought a vivodi card to call home and went to my yiayia's house to use her landline. *blink* oh my word she still has an old rotary dialler phone (bet you didnt know what it was called... yes I'm a legend). So I assumed it must just be for show, I picked up the receiver and there was a dial tone *shock horror* how am I supposed to use the vivodi card if it can only work with tone dialling?!? I felt like I had been sucked into a time warp and transported back to 1983! After a brief panic I found another 'normal' phone, turns out the funky old one is linked to an extension.

*pring pring*
*connecting xorio to JHB*
"Hello?"
"Hello! Do you know yiayia has one of those really old phones were you stick your finger in the hole and turn it to dial a number? And it actually works!"

My name has gone down in the history books


On a family trip to Greece in 1988 my sisters and I painted my yiayia's balcony, not with Plascon Wall & All but with cheapo kids paint. We covered the entire balcony with pictures of flowers and trees and other garden stuff, we must have decided that living on a mountain an hour away from civilisation was grounds for a play-play garden. 21 years later all that is left of our painted garden is my name in one of the corners, what can I say..... I'm a legend

Friday, 13 November 2009

Holy Moley


The Greeks refuse to demolish any church. So instead of tearing this little church in Athens down they simply built over and around it

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