The Compleat Traveller

I have already written about the Mother's Day celebrations I attended on the Greek island of Ikaria during my visit there ove...

Changing the guard, Greek Parliament Building The New York Times , has been running a regular series of travel columns under the headi...

Parisian river scene  I recently returned from an almost four month extended vacation spent mostly in Greece, but with a two week side ...

Traditional Greek dish called Briam Another recipe prepared by my sister, Irene Gevezes, who lives on Ikaria, an island in the Aegean ...

After my fourth or fifth stay at the Hotel Delfini, at Piraeus, I decided it was high time I wrote a review of the establishment. Since ...

Mount Atheras, the highest point on Ikaria I have written before about the Aegean island, Ikaria, the place from which my parents and ...

It is interesting how travel―or the prospect of forthcoming travel―can focus the mind, and change long-held habits seemingly overnight. ...

Bethesda Fountain, Central Park, New York City Losing my religion? Hardly. More like losing my mojo. After a brief burst of activity t...

Peri's Hotel & Apartments, Athens, Greece ~ I only spent one night (February, 2011), at Peri’s Hotel & Apartments , in Ath...

~ On Saturday, June 14, 2008, a Festival of Greek Dance was held in the village of Rahes, on the Aegean island of Ikaria, and this film, ...

It’s traditional to offer some homilies and reflections at the end of one year, and at the beginning of a new one, and being a bit of a t...

... The human figure in this image helps puts the giant male sculpture into some sort of perspective, although nothing prepares you for the...

I caught this villager taking a break (i.e., nodding off), from her crochet work one warm summers afternoon, while visiting the village of ...

 Click to view full sized. There is something quite sobering about the number of memorials along Greek highways and roads that mark the ...

 Nothing succeeds like failure! Fear is a powerful motivator of behaviour that seldom takes us where we want to go. ~ Gordon Livingston,...

Image: Cover shot of December 2010, Air France magazine … There they are, jammed into the storage pocket located behind every airline pass...