The Lost Expat Digest (in Greece)
A weekly digest of Greek news, for expats and other lost souls. Every Thursday.
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Love the cauldron: an August in empty Athens (opens the original)
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This one is about the good life. No news. No fires. No politics. Just things to do. Ways to breathe. Dance. Eat and fry in the sun.What’s something you can say about both Athens in August and a zombie? It looks dead, but it’s not. Haha. (I made that up all by myself, I promise.) <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7slU!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa5724232-e25
12,500 trees and still no shade: an Athenian story (opens the original)
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This week has been all about the Odyssey, of course. I went to see it at the θερινό (more like ended up seeing it because it was really hard to find something else), not at the IMAX, and I’m sure a bunch of Nolan fans have lost their wings (or something?). (Did you know there are over 60 of them in Athens? Summer cinemas. Not Nolan fans.)In any case, I wrote about it in PressOne - and I promise, it’s jus
Jump, Grandma! (opens the original)
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So I was at Moby a week ago, in the middle of the crowd (the show was sold out, so I’d say there were over 20,000 people there), when I realized how old I am: the first time I saw Moby live was in 2009, at a festival in Bucharest. That’s 17 years ago, the age of a person who can almost vote, and I didn’t go with my high school buddies either: I went there for work. I was an accredited journalist (yes, my first job - which I also kept on a project basis for almost a decade after leaving the team
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