Kos

Jay demonstrating the Hippocratic Oath under the Plane tree where Hippocrates taught his pupils. Of course it isn't the same tree, (Plane trees only live for a couple hundred years) but in Greece, myth and history are very intertwined.

The Aegean Islands

December 24th 2008
We've dragged ourselves away from Istanbul and got on an overnight bus that took us all the way down the Aegean coast to the town of Bodrum. We had booked a ferry the following day to the island of Kos but we needed to spend a night in Bodrum. There was potential here for a nice relaxing day in a small beach resort town but instead it turned into a major hassle. There was nobody at any of the host ... read more

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Greece achieved its independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1829. During the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, it gradually added neighboring islands and territories, most with Greek-speaking populations. In Worl... ... read more

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