Greece Travel Blog

Zakynthos – Great food, fun, and breathtaking views

Greece Travel Blog — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:51:34 +0000

Zante is a little gem set in the Ionian islands in a part of the Mediterranean that had never appealed to me before, but it didn’t take me long to change my mind. In fact it happened not long after girlfriend and I had dropped our bags in our room at the all- inclusive four-star [...]

Folegandros – An intoxicating island!

Greece Travel Blog — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:13:22 +0000

Imagine an isolated land where dissidents of the state are sent into exile. Now, make that place so intoxicating that some exiles choose to settle there! That’s Folegandros, a rugged Greek island in the Aegean Sea. Folegandros is smaller, harder to reach and virtually unknown compared to many other Greek islands – think Crete, Mykonos and [...]

Everyday adventures on a small Greek island

Greece Travel Blog — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:58:51 +0000

No one else’s behavior makes any sense, according to the very first sentence in Barbara Bonfigli’s, Cafe Tempest – a book with “adventures on a small Greek island”, a “fictional memoir”. But, how can ourselves make some sense, even to us only, if everybody else is beyond understanding? Or: are we that different, each of us [...]

Mandy Morales to join a Greek team

Greece Travel Blog — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:20:45 +0000

Mandy Morales confirmed she will depart in late summer to play for Apollon Ptolemaidos in Greece. The team is part of the Greek A1 league, where it finished sixth among 14 teams last season. Morales has been going through rehab and wrestling with the idea of playing overseas. She held off on her decision until Apollon [...]

Octopus escape in a Greek island

Greece Travel Blog — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:10:11 +0000

This is a funny video about an octopus that manages to escape his seemingly inevitable death after a fisherman catches it in a Greek island. For the word “octopus” note that it comes from two greek words, the word “octo”, meaning 8, and the word “pous” meaning “leg”. Octopus means “with eight legs”. Related posts (automatic [...]

A Summary of Greece!

Greece Travel Blog — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:40:40 +0000

Greece lies at the crossroads where East meets West. It has been ruled by the Romans and the Turks, and in turn Greece’s own Byzantine Empire governed much of the Mediterranean and the Middle East for more than a thousand years. This history has left a rich cultural legacy and the Greek people take a [...]

Greece has everything….

Greece Travel Blog — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:55:16 +0000

Rich and Cheryl Cartwright of Gahanna put my travel boast to shame: The retired teachers have visited 73 countries. They started traveling after they were married in 1967, but they took a break from international voyages to raise their two sons. “It’s not that we just step in the country and check it off the list,” [...]

Athenian wonders you may have failed to see

Greece Travel Blog — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:41:57 +0000

One of the cities I truly adore is Athens. For some unknown reason to logic, in contemporary times most visitors to Greece would just whip through Athens like the Meltemi, leave as quick as humanly possible, and get on with their journeys of their choice to some hot spot island or other in order to [...]

Kavala – Thassos events – 2009

Greece Travel Blog — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:41:58 +0000

A visitor of Greece Travel Blog from France sent me by email this question: “Je souhaite savoir si il y a des spectacles ou concert a kavavla et thassos dans la periode 15juillet au 8 AOUT 2009″. There are two events I would recommend, a concert and a theatrical performance – both by Greek artists. This [...]

Samaria, Lasithi, Knossos – Gastronomy and Mythology in Crete

Greece Travel Blog — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 06:51:13 +0000

The highlight of our week was hiking the Samaria Gorge. We took a bus from Hania (NW end of the island) one and a half hours up. The hike was 7 hours down into the Gorge and spectacular scenery. Even I was impressed with the geology! (Though my knees weren’t). We also made [...]