Through most of the 90s I combed the internet for news about Greece, archaeology and travel information. I looked but never found a single site that provided links to the wide range of information that I wanted. I had been blogging for more than a year before I realized that the site I had hoped to find would be easy and cheap to run with blogging software (yes, I am sort of dim-witted). It took a month to talk myself into it and quite a few months of practice before found enough sources and a balance of coverage that I liked. When The Hellenophile was mentioned on the front page of the local paper last October, I decided it was time officially open the doors for business.

Though it has gotten much better in the last year, Greece has had a smaller presence on the internet than many other nations. That makes planning a trip to Greece, or running a weblog about it devilishly difficult. Even now, good news sites in English--especially ones with a Greek perspective--are hard to find. So a weblog about Greece for English-speakers has a real, if small, niche to fill.

Unfortunately, I'm not the best person to fill that niche. One trip to Greece every three or four years is the best that I can manage, and I'm hardly an expert in archaeology, history or literature. I have to shoehorn by blogging time in between work, family responsibilities and my other hobbies. And the energy- and time-sucking two-year old lays claim to an ever-growing amount of my ever-dwindling stores of energy.

If you have ever been to Greece, then you know how captivating it is. So this site mostly a way for me to keep a connection to Greece in between trips. I just do this because I love the country, so if I have fun, and if can stoke even a bit of interest in someone else, I'll have fulfilled the goal of this weblog.

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