Philip Ammerman

I stay in a lot of hotels each year. Some of these stays are planned; some occur by chance. Regardless of the country, one common factor...

This post may sound a little bit naïve, but here it goes. I’m on vacation in Vienna: we arrived yesterday, walked around, slept, etc. and...

So … the nice lady asks me what I would like to drink. I answer “Bourbon, please.” Blank stare. “What is bourbon?” I scrambled to define...

Dear Sir, Madam, I issued my one-way ticket ATH-LCA on Aegean A390 at an insanely high price (EUR 243.85 / Lite) for a 90 minute flight....

It’s December 24th and as I sit in my apartment in Limassol, cleaning up this year’s mess and reflecting on the next year, I understand...

For those of you parents of a certain age who watched Disney’s 2007 movie, Ratatouille, there is a scene towards the end where the food...

Memory is a strange thing. A long time ago (1992?) at Princeton I was reading up on sedimentation and somehow came across RA Bagnold’s...

In Greece, we are blessed with sites that are magical in the human vision they convey. Delphi is one such site. There is a strange energy...

This evening the looming disaster of the coronavirus took on a new dimension for me. I’ll illustrate this with a series of anecdotes.