Larnaca- Making use of my time between rounds of the Cypriot presidential election , I’m doing a major, vastly time consuming purge of “big tech” that clouds (pun intended) my small world. It all started with me hastily buying a…
Binge and Purge
Into the Eastern Mediterranean’s Political Prism
Nicosia- I have a new piece out today for The Redline Podcast titled “Cyprus Votes: Growing Rifts and Eastward Drift” on this past Sunday’s presidential election here in Cyprus where the traditional establishment parties were thrown a curve by the…
From Rome to Ruins
Nicosia- After exhausting myself in the best possible way covering the presidential election here, I was back at the hotel up very late merely thinking about the story I was planning to write the next day ie today for Australia-based…
Landed and Lost in Larnaca
Larnaca- After my hyper brief visit to Athens described in the previous post, I landed in the EU’s southeastern extremity and eastern Mediterranean’s closest thing to stability. In the damp, cold night I somehow found the apartments I had stayed…
An Athenian Whirlwind
Athens- I had a slightly longer than expected layover than expected in the modern Greek capital yesterday and made a mad dash into the city centre to try and visit the Acropolis before racing back to my onward flight to…
Return to Orwell’s Catalonia
Barcelona- After a series of difficult decisions and taking an unusual amount of personal risk, I’ve finally escaped from my going-nowhere existence in NYC brought on by what has seemed like (some of which is pure clickbait e.g. “The Case…