La Vie Francaise

I have to say, I absolutely love living on the French Riviera; I mean, how could you not enjoy living in a place where it’s socially acceptable to drink at 8:00 am? (For those who are curious, I’m taking French lessons for seven more weeks here) This region is populated by people who [...]

Liver! Feelings! Robots!

Late-night Greek food leaves something to be desired, and I think the stewed goose livers that I thoroughly enjoyed at about three o’clock this morning might not have been the best idea after all. To be honest, I have absolutely no idea what it was, but after years of eating at Taco Bell, that’s [...]

Money Talks

Just yesterday I was sitting on the train from Thessaloniki to Athens, staring out the window at passing vineyards and pondering the harsh realities of our inevitable subjugation by the evil robot overlords of the planet Zergon 5, when something of dire importance occurred to me.
But that’s not important right now.
What is important is that [...]

About Last Night

For those that don’t know, which I’ll assume to be most of you, rakija (pronounced rok-ya) is the Serbian equivalent of moonshine, and is generally distilled from apples, pears or plums. It smells like fruit and tastes like burning; it also has a variety of other amazing uses, like removing paint, degreasing engines, and [...]