david hogan

Category: Greece | Bulgaria

  • Living Forever on a Greek Island

    After the first few weeks, I didn’t know what day it was. By that, I don’t mean that I didn’t know if it was a Monday or a Tuesday. I didn’t know if it was a Monday or a Saturday.…

  • Food in Modern and Ancient Greece

    Modern Greeks start discussing dinner after the first bite of lunch and start discussing the next day’s lunch at dinner. For the unwitting visitor or in-law, like myself, there is a single escape from this circle of culinary obsession: breakfast.…

  • Faith, Recklessness, and Courage (Christmas in No-Man’s Land)

    There were three men against the back wall with AK-47s.  They were unshaven, unmoving, and looked as if the last time they smiled there was blood on the ground.   They glared at me and there was an even chance that…