Citizens of the world

I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world. This quote from an ambiguous ancient source (credited to Socrates but more likely uttered by Diogenis) has quite a wide range of interpretations. To me it means that you are neither bound by nor entitled to your “national heritage”. Some attributes …

A formal dinner at McDonalds, henceforth the “McFormal”

So my girlfriend really likes McDonalds. I try to discourage her from eating there whenever I can so this was the perfect scenario for  surprise! I despise Valentine’s day like the next person so I thought it would be hilarious to have a formal dinner at McD’s! (our home town -Cambridge,UK- is all about “formal …

A “mangas” went out for a stroll

Mangas (Greek: μάγκας [ˈma(ŋ)ɡas]) is the name of a social group in the counterculture of pre-WWI Greece. Mangas was a label for men belonging to the working class, behaving in a particularly arrogant/presumptuous way, and dressing with a very typical vesture composed of a woolen hat, a jacket (they usually wore only one of its …