The wind beats against my face in the back of the Beamer as we speed to the train station to catch our transit to the airport. We're not in a rush, its just the way you drive here. The villages are like video games with grannies crossing, children running and cars stopping randomly for their own reasons. No one gets in a fuss, the key is to just pay attention. These last few days I have been saturated in paradise. On Thursday I walked to the church with some...

I'm sitting out on the patio at George's house on the hillside of a village in Greece called Vivari. The village is a small fishing town with a couple thousand people. George's house is a beautiful mansion on 2 floors with a lot of stone and wood. There is an upper and a lower patio that overlook the sea. Last night we went out for delicious burgers in a larger town, Nafplio, about 20 minutes away by car. We sat at a road side restaurant, stray dogs laying a...