Reporting from Athens, Greece — In the Athens I knew when I first moved here almost 20 years ago, the taverna was still an institution. That was in the early 1990s, before a stock market boom, the ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here on the beach in mythical Greece, it feels as if time has slowed to one long, golden hour. As the sun dips below the horizon ...

Whenever I’m in Greece, I don’t let a sun go down without enjoying a nice glass of ouzo. It’s funny, because I don’t even like the taste of that licorice-flavored firewater when I’m back home in the ...