Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Kosmos = Lots of people

It's obviously the middle of summer now and you can't go down anywhere in Chania without bumping into someone from another country. I'm not arguing that it's a bad thing, it's quiet the opposite especially when Greece is facing the worst economic disaster in over a century. What my complaint is that people don't get how to walk down the street here. For example, tour groups with one local woman with an annoying pink umbrella seem to invade the street like it's theirs to own. People should leave space! The amount of times I had to apologize in a weird language is beyond count.

Tourists of the world in my mind need to learn two things. The first is to not be afraid to go places beyond the hotel and beach to go eat, it's cheaper and the food is better quality. For example, a little village about 10 miles away from Chania is Alikianos, its in the world's second biggest orange grove and has the most amazing view of the mountains. However, tourists just seem too afraid to head down there. This I believe is due to not understanding Greek and being too adjusted to a comfort zone.

What do you mean by comfort zone, I hear you ask. Some tourist's have that area of a hotel to beach to cheap taverna where the owner speaks English and they understand the food. English people are particularly bad at this, often ordering chips and spaghetti Bolognese in GREECE! It's about time tourists break out of this and go to areas like Alikianos. In a time when we have less money, it's crazy to be ripped off by expensive tasteless food with a 'comfort zone'.




Tuesday, August 9, 2011

London Riots

Can't feel I can continue blogging today without bringing up the horror which has unfolded in London. From what, the BBC and Sky have been saying from the shooting of Mark Duggan. It's shocking that people can go low enough to burgle and vandalize and ruin peoples lives. Out of all, we should be impressed by the British Police Force who go out every night to deal with the thugs and hooligans.

Even celebrities like Lord Sugar and Jamie Oliver have put on their twitter sites how they are appalled by the destruction. as some twitters have said, young people in the Middle East riot for peace, young people in England riot for Ipads and trainers.

I just hope that the 16,000 officers out on the streets tonight can deal with all the problems in the capital. We might of been complaining about police brutality earlier this year, but certainly now we are behind them one hundred percent. 

Street Art From Chania

I love how random these are! From Chania which is great to see. 




Street Art Athens

Here are some pieces I have taken pictures of in Athens! Hope you like them. Don't have an idea who the artists are so If anyone knows please comment :) 









Monday, August 8, 2011

Street Art

It's one of the most misunderstood forms of art work in the world. Street art is mysterious mostly illegal but amazingly beautiful.

Banksy, the infamous street artist to me is very clever and also is out there only for the art. His most recent street work for me is a testament to that. 


Check more of his work out! I love this book 

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Songs from my SoundHound App

If anyone out there is an iphone user I highly recommend using the music recognizer app SoundHound. It's amazing for those times that you just think, heck what's the song! So for everyone I thought I would post some of the amazing songs I have heard over the last few months.

If your interested In getting SoundHound for yourself click the link!

So here they are:

1. Summer Holiday by Wild Nothing

2. Imagine by Snoop Dogg

3. Pumped up Kicks by Foster the People

4. Halfway Gone by Lifehouse

5. (Just Like) Starting over by John Lennon

Hope you enjoy these Songs as much as I did!

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Fly Away Euro


Beautiful graffiti which speaks the truth about whats probably going to happen