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The Big Fat Funny Life Gazette
Volume I, Number 009
A weekly-ish dispatch from Kalamata, with questionable authority and excellent coffee.
Week: July 12, 2026
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This week’s showcase
Greek Islands: Which One Is Best?
A completely unhelpful guide you’ll still thank me for later.
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Reader favorite
The Postcard Lied—Most of Greece Is Uphill
An unofficial guide to stairs, hills, and the national belief that “it’s just up there.”
The Kafeneio Spoke
A collection from this week’s table.
“I love this Nick. When we drive around Greece, I have the same question. Why is this village here? Almost every time whenever we ask anybody they always say “pirates”. All of these villages date back at least that far.And now we have the descendants of the villagers coming back and buying homes in those villages (and even possibly living in the ancestral homes, if there hasn’t been too much strife over ownership) and they get slightly more populated again”
— Chris K For: There Is Always Another Village
“You are doing such a great job drawing your reader(s) in....Each of your stories teaches me more about the country I love to live in. All of them make me smile. Some situations even feel "familiar"; your insights help us adjust to "the way it works". This one touches me in a different way though. There's no Maria hidden under the Marij from The Netherlands. Maybe my goal can be to not automatically be considered a tourist.”
— Marij V For: The Husband My Wife Met Again in Greece
Coming Up July 14, 2026
The System Is Down. Have Some Gavros.
An ordinary day in Greece, where a blocked Airbnb payment somehow ends at the beach with fish, vlita, and tsipouro.
Somewhere in a large building, possibly guarded by a man named Kostas and three broken printers, a system had decided I was committing fraud.
“Ah, yes,” the woman said. “There was a security alert for possible fraud.”
“No fraud,” I said. “I am trying to pay Airbnb.”
“Yes,” she said.
Good, I thought.
But no.
Because in banking language, yes does not always mean yes.
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