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Theotokopoulou Street

31 Wednesday Jul 2013

Posted by Louise in Accommodations, Travel, Video

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Chania, Crete, expat, Greece, Theotokopoulou Street

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We finalized our arrangements on Theotokopoulou Street back in October, 2012 (and recruited our avatars to make a short video, which is here), and now our stay in Greece is about to end. To complete the circle that our avatars began, we take you back to Theotokopoulou Street, this time in person with Louise as host, to see our neighborhood up close, to try to pronounce “Theotokopoulou,” and to meet some of our friends there:

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Fill ‘er Up!

29 Monday Jul 2013

Posted by Louise & Tom in Short, Travel

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buses, Chania, Greece, travel

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We don’t have a car here on Crete. We could rent one (or rent a motorcycle, which was our original plan), but after ten minutes of watching Cretan drivers, no one in his right mind would choose to drive himself, especially on a moto. It’s best to take the bus, and there are lots of buses.

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Things You Won’t Read in the Guidebooks

22 Monday Jul 2013

Posted by Louise & Tom in Travel

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Chania, Georgio Armani, Greece, Main yacht

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Two weeks. That’s how long we’ve been in Chania. We’ve pretty well scoured the city (it’s small: population ~55,000) and are now taking an inventory of all the beaches within a day’s outing. Louise is learning the language (note the absence of the plural “we”), and we’re becoming gourmands, having now visited – oh, I dunno – maybe 500 local restaurants. (Lord, thank you for the food on this island.)

But now, some of the things we’ve learned (and that you won’t read in the guidebooks) about the local culture:

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A Day in Neo Greco Portland

08 Monday Oct 2012

Posted by Louise in Sentiments, Travel

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expat, Greece, travel

Me sipping a frappé

That’s me sipping a frappé – a Greek iced coffee.

It was really hard to decide between the diples, kataifi, koulourakia, and melomakarona, which had the added problem of sounding like a disease, so we just left all the pastries alone.

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July in Greece: It’s Official!

01 Monday Oct 2012

Posted by Louise in Accommodations, Silly stuff

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Chania, expat, expatriate, Greece, travel

Tom & Louise with champagne

We’re popping open the champagne tonight because we reserved another apartment today – this one in Chania, on Crete, in Greece, for the month of July, 2013. No, we’ve never been there.

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