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Mark42 - Mark Griggs

Not entirely regular accounts of my travels through Europe and the Middle East with my girlfriend, Andrea.
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By Mark42
July 25th 2008

Egypt At Last!!

 Africa » Egypt » Sinai » Dahab
Phaistos Disk
Phaistos Disk
This is a famous artifact found in Crete whose symbols have not been deciphered. I think it's a children's game where you roll some dice with the symbols and move your piece to the next one that come... [more]
Hola amigos, I know it's been a while since I rapped at ya... (probably only Matthew gets that joke) Seriously though, I know I haven't updated in a while, but we've been pretty busy sightseeing in Egypt and fast internet connections are not exactly easy to find around here. The one I'm currently on isn't terribly fast, so we'll see how many pictures I get uploaded. Ok, well I just uploaded a few photos and it took forever so now I'm tired of being at the computer. I'll give a quick rundown of our travels now and then flesh things out [View Full Entry]

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McDonald
Ancient Site of Knossos
Mar Girgis

By Mark42
July 3rd 2008

Aegean Islands

 Europe » Greece » South Aegean » Santorini
Hello All, Well, Andrea and I have spent the last two weeks island hopping here in the Aegean Sea. We haven't done a great deal of sightseeing, mostly just relaxing and hanging out. Below is a short description of each island we've been to with some pictures. We're heading to Crete later this afternoon and after we spend a week there we're flying to Egypt! Mykonos We spent about four days here and had a good time. We stayed at a campsite in a bungalow with a beautiful view of the sea right out our door. The accommodations were primitive, but [View Full Entry]

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Sunset on the approach to Mykonos
View of the sea from our bunglow in Mykonos
Drea and I with our Kiwi friends DJ and Amber, Mykonos

By Mark42
June 19th 2008

Mainland Greece

 Europe » Greece » Thessaly » Meteora
Hey all, Well, I had written a long and entertaining account of our time in Greece since we left Corfu, but the computer lost connection with the net while trying to save it and then lost it... I'm too upset to try and type it all again, so I'm just going to upload some pictures. [View Full Entry]

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Clytmenestra
Ruins of Mycenae
Drea with buger and ribs at Hard Rock Cafe, Athens

By Mark42
June 11th 2008

Some More Photos

 Europe » Greece » Pelopennese » Nafplion
Hey all, Here are some more pictures of our time in Italy and a few from Corfu. We left Corfu yesterday and have made our way to Nafplio (crossing the area that was apparently hit by an earthquake last week) in Greece. Tomorrow we go to visit the ancient site of Mycenae to see some amazing ruins. All I can say is that WE LOVED CORFU!!! Great weather, beautiful beaches, good food, friendly people... we had a very nice vacation from our vacation ;-). We were there two and a half weeks and I finally finished up my PADI Open Water [View Full Entry]

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Andrea with Baffetto
Coliseum at Night
Trajan

By Mark42
May 26th 2008

Italy

 Europe » Greece » Ionian Islands » Corfu
Hey all! Well, Andrea and I have finally made it to sunny beaches and at least relatively cheap prices. We're here on the Greek island of Corfu in the Ionian Sea and we couldn't be happier. We've been soaking up the sun and relaxing, which is nice because the last two months sometimes felt like a sight seeing/museum marathon. We think we'll be here in Corfu for about 8-9 days, I may finish my Open Water Diving training, but then we may just spend the whole time at the beaches. But for now, I'll get back to where I left off [View Full Entry]

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Pantheon Ceiling
Pantheon
Drea Inside Colosseum

By Mark42
May 17th 2008

More Pictures

 Europe » Italy » Lazio » Rome
Ok, on the last entry I ran out of time before I got more pictures on so today I'm going to post a bunch of pictures first and probably won't have any time for text updates. But right now Andrea and I are about to head to Naples after having been in Rome for 9 days! We've had a lot of fun here and seen a lot but it's time to get out already... So here are the photos, hope you like them! [View Full Entry]

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Eiffel Tower at Night
Drea at Versailles Hall of Mirrors
Me and Drea at Mt St Michel

Hey all, Drea and I are in Rome now and having a great time, except for the fact that it takes forever to get around in the city. Anyway, back to where I left off last time (with some pictures from earlier times). Mont St Michel After our happy reunion we headed to Mt St Michel. We stayed at a campsite there, but in these little shacks that had no running water. They were pretty comfortable though, and while we had very good weather for the first time, it still got pretty cold at night and the shack was only slightly [View Full Entry]

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Eiffel Tower at Night

By Mark42
May 7th 2008

2nd Entry (Finally)

 Europe » Italy » Tuscany » Florence
Hey all! I know it's been a while since I blogged, but internet access has been expensive and we've been real busy. Everything's been expensive, thanks to the weak dollar and rising EU prices, but we're finally camping so we're saving a lot of money now. Since my last entry we finished our time in London, took the chunnel train down to Paris, visited some sites in Normandy, flew down to Venice and then took a train to Florence. We're having a great time and although the weather has been back and forth, we're currently getting some beautiful weather here and [View Full Entry]

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Hey everybody! Thanks for coming to check out my travel blog. I meant to get this started earlier, but then preparing for and going on this trip has been a series of things I meant to do a lot earlier than I did. So I'm here in London on about the fifth day of the trip posting my first entry. I'll start with my trip from Denver to Los Angeles: Denver to Los Angeles I left Denver on Tuesday April 1, at about 6:00 pm after spending the whole day doing the final packing and cleaning out of my duplex. Thanks [View Full Entry]

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Founding Fathers Peaks at Zion
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