Greece, 3.Oct.2025, Friday
Meteora and Thermopylae The word Meteor means suspended in the sky. There used to be 24 monasteries on the top of these mountains. Now there are 6 and 2 of them are converted to convents. They didn’t have enough monks who wanted to live a secluded life, so the archbishop converted 2. The ascetics (word derived…
Greece, 2.Oct.2025, Thursday
Katarina our guide was great. I wrote a few notes in the van as we drove north towards Delphi and Meteora. We were driving into new territory to us and she said that 80% of Greece is covered by mountains and hills, Olympus is the highest at 10,000. Parnasus goes up to almost 8,000 feet…
Greece, 1.Oct.2025, Wednesday
Today’s breakfast didn’t go well at the hotel, delayed, missing pieces, not great. So Kaziah and I ran out to THE place in Chania for bougatsa – the traditional treat for any time of day of filo dough enclosing sweet cheese and sprinkled with sugar or a less sweet cheese and sprinkled with sugar and…
Greece, 30.Sep.2025, Tuesday
Today was a day mostly away from history and culture. We went out on a catamaran to see the gorgeous Greek water, a particular wish of Eli C’s. First, however, Rick and I got up in time to see the sunrise from the Venetian harbor of Chania. A man and his coffee cup 🙂 Eli…
Greece, 29.Sep.2025, Monday
Today was a travel day. We thought we were going to do some walking early, but it was a rainy day and instead, we all went to a cell phone case store the Eli C had found and we all got either cases, or the protector glass on the front, a watch band. Who knew…
Greece, 28.Sep.2025, Sunday
We got to sleep in a bit today. Surprisingly, everyone was still up and at breakfast by 7:30, with Eli W being the first one up! We decided to meet and walk towards the Agora, going through the Plaka area, the old city with shops, coffee shops, restaurants. I led the way, repeating my walk…
Greece, 27.Sep.2025, Saturday
The family made it in last night by 10, very tired, staggering, but happy to be here. We had a wonderful breakfast to start our day. They have a great buffet here, looking at the Acropolis and Parthenon and then we met our driver for the tour at 8:30. The morning was perfect weather wise.…
Greece, 26.Sep.2025, Friday
I know I’ll probably repeat some of today with the family, but needed to do some walking so took my earbuds and phone and walked a couple of Rick Steves tours. They’re so good! When we were here 8 years ago for my sister’s and stepmother’s birthdays, I didn’t do either of the walks I…
Greece, 25.Sep.2025, Thursday
I wanted to explore with the family, so went on Viatours to find something that would be a day excursion and found a boat trip that went to three islands. It looked like a sailing boat from the ad, but nope, it motored, but it had these crazy big cushions that every one sat on…
Greece, 24.Sep.2025, Wednesday
Lucky me, I’m on another adventure and this time almost the whole family is joining. Sadly, at the last minute my oldest realized she couldn’t join because her dog, her beloved, was not well enough for her to leave him for a week and half. We totally supported her of course, but we will seriously…
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