It had been extremely windy every day and the day before our scheduled event day, it even rained heavily. But today (it seems like we can trust what lovely Mrs. Ersön read in the coffee grounds!), what a lucky day for the New7Wonders campaign. This morning, we are blessed with an absolutely calm, dark blue […]
Istanbul
We were invited for a lunch meeting with the lady in charge of the archaeological and monument sites of Istanbul. We ate in her impeccably restored office building in the most beautiful Sultan’s gardens. By the way, the most efficient way to get there was by tram…but what a tram! New, air-conditioned and almost floating […]
Athens/Istanbul
After arriving at our hotel in Istanbul, we took a little stroll through the very picturesque restaurant area near the fishing harbor. Here, we were amazingly surprised by the witty approach that the head waiters have taken towards the tourists to lure them into their restaurants….”welcome to the worst place in Istanbul!”…”eat today, pay in […]
Athens
We were up before dawn and it was breathtaking to watch the sun slowly appear to the right of the Acropolis, lighting up this majestic monument. We were on time—even though the Greek TV crew was late, leaving their poor reporter frenzied at missing so much good television footage. The balloon went up for its […]
Athens
What strikes me most is the open friendliness and warmth of the people in the city streets. Many Greek have come back to Greece from other parts of the world where their parents had emigrated. I have met Greeks from Australia, from Canada, USA, Germany, even an 80-year -old Greek man from Tanzania. They all […]
Zurich/Athens
Our Swiss flight is late, we get into Athens at 1:30 AM, yet the first journalist has been staying up and waiting in the lobby of our partner hotel, the Royal Olympic. He is a journalist from DPA and says: no problem, that’s when we start our evening here in Greece! Our Swiss flight is […]