… a vision on a hill Arrived in Athens this afternoon – tired but happy to be back. Some of the polish of the 2004 Olympics – after which was the last time I was here – has faded but the city still boasts the style and pulse of a Paris without...
Assignment overview L eaving on Tuesday for a two week reporting trip to Greece, Albania and the rest of the Dalmatian coast. The original plan was to spend a week (or so) on Mount Athos and then a few days in Albania and slowly up the coast to fly home from Trieste....
… trip coordinates W ell, not quite. But Albania is (or was) one of its stranger offspring. A hermit kingdom wedged between the turbulent Balkans and Greece. A place stunted by its last strongman leader – Enver Hoxha – who died 25 years ago....
… from the Globe and Mail in April 2009 ” … we’re so enmeshed in this culture of sell, that is partly based on lying, it’s hard to determine what is true….”
… from a letter he sent to a friend M y Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think I am following your will does not mean...
Poorest country in the western hemisphere, long history of political oppression, massive soil erosion, widespread illiteracy, agricultural exports destroyed due to rich-world farm subsidies, larger than usual income disparity, corruption… and then an...
