Visit These International Sites: Peloponnese, Greece
November 4, 2019. Trip Oversight Top 12 Trip Picks • Pyramids of Giza • Parthenon – Athens, Greece • Meteora, Greece (Kalabaka) • Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia • West Cork, Ireland • Banks of the Seine, Paris, France • London along the Thames • Luxor, Egypt • Dublin, Ireland • Peloponnese, Greece • Dubrovnik/Trogir/Zadar, […]
Visit These International Sites: Meteora, Greece
September 30, 2019. Trip Oversight “I was happy in the midst of dangers and inconveniences.” -Daniel Boone Top 12 Trip Picks • Pyramids of Giza • Parthenon – Athens, Greece • Meteora, Greece (Kalabaka) • Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia • West Cork, Ireland • Banks of the Seine, Paris, France • London along the […]
Visit These International Sites: The Parthenon
September 26, 2019. Trip Oversight “A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.” -Benjamin Franklin Top 12 Trip Pics • Pyramids of Giza • Parthenon – Athens, Greece • Meteora, Greece • Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia • West Cork, Ireland • Banks of the Seine, Paris, France • London along the […]
Last Day in Greece – Athens
“Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life” ― Michael Palin Go-Date: Day 56, Tuesday. March 19 Lesson Learned: Travel days suck. No way around that. Muscling your luggage into a cab, car or bus, then through check-in, […]
Heraklion
“You can’t control the past, but you can control where you go next.” ― Kirsten Hubbard, Wanderlove Go-Date: Day 53 – 55, Saturday thru Monday. March 16, 17 & 18 Lesson Learned: Figure out what kind of a visit you desire before you book lodging. Through Greece, we’ve had different intent’s for our visits to […]
Happy Agios Nikolaos St Patrick’s Day
“The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. Then you’re not a traveler. You’re a fucking tourist.” ― Guillermo del Toro Go-Date: Day 50 – 53, Wednesday thru Saturday. March 13, 14, 15 & 16 Lesson Learned: Nothing makes for a worse stay in a town/resort/village/city than a bad […]
Early Exit to Agios Nikolaos
“I have taken roads that I wished I had not traveled on. And I’m traveling on some pretty exciting ones, too.” -Paul Newman Go-Date: Day 50, Wednesday. March 13 Lesson Learned: Sometimes you just know when its time to leave. We booked 2 weeks in Chania, and by day 10 we knew we’d already seen […]
Let’s Go Fly A Kite to Aptera
“Happiness is good health and a bad memory.” Ingrid Bergman (1917-1982) Go-Date: Days 48 & 49, Monday & Tuesday. March 11 & 12 Lesson Learned: Buy sunscreen in America. No, this isn’t a Buy USA ad, its just a warning that sunscreen is expensive when you buy it here. I don’t know why, it just […]
Moni Katholiko, Artist Village & Therisos Gorge
“Traveling off the main road wastes a lot of time. But one discovers many wonderful things.” ― Marty Rubin “Toula, they two kinds of people: Greeks, and everybody else who wish they was Greek.” -Gus, My Big Fat Greek Wedding ” Yes, inside the lump… was my twin!” -Aunt Voula, My Big Fat Greek Wedding […]
Fortress, Cemeteries, Ruins & Monasteries
“You can handle just about anything that comes at you out on the road with a believable grin, common sense and whiskey.” ― Bill Murray, Common Sense and Whiskey Go-Date: Day 42 thru 44, Tuesday. March 5 – 7. Lesson Learned: Made in America. The hamburger may appear on menus in other countries. That doesn’t […]