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The Last Place in the World Where I Would EVER Want to Visit or Revisit Again

The next T-Boy writers' poll is devoted to THE LAST PLACE in the world where you would NEVER want to visit, or revisit. The instructions were simple: it could be a nation, state, region or province, a city or town, or a place; like that fisherman's bar in Valparaiso, where I was once thrown out of for expressing my distaste of the Chilean dictator, Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte.

Athens in the Summer

the Parthenon, Athens

I have Greece on my mind these days. I am revisiting both Zorba the Greek and Henry Miller’s Colossus of Maroussi. A few recent conversations with a few different friends, brought those books back into my consciousness and how they should be required reading for the herds of tourists who invade the country on a regular basis. Hence, the conversations also brought back a …