My bag is missing! tear apart the room a dorm room with fake wood furniture and a bunk bed sharing the toilets like the good old days retrace my steps i didn't leave it at the restaraunt Peter made to put it in his own bag "No, no," i said, "I can carry it." I noted the annoying way it slid off my raincoated shoulder walking back In the bathroom I put it down in the bathroom track down the cleaning lady she doesn't speak english when something is missing and not where it's supposed to be a certain space of [View Full Entry]

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I have not written because i have been on a train forever and in greece seeing things i saw before but with the fam seeing them with Peter made me appreciate small travelling groups highlights: i vomited in a bag with a small hole in it on the back of the bus on the way to Delphi while eating dinner in the crowded streets of touristy Plaka in Athens a table of Austrian men sang a beautiful toasting song in three part harmony i looked over at them and they toasted emphatically one of them struck up a conversation with us [View Full Entry]

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Peter arrived at 3 in the morning yesterday with only his carryon but grinning and so a new chapter of the trip has begun After the family left and before peter came I set off to find the Herekledion museum and a traveling exhibit of Toulouse Lautrec I found it as well as an archeological museum along the way i mostly stopped in because i was overheating but soon found what a disadvantage it is to NOT have my dad on hand to ask questions "when exactly did the classical greek period start?" "why does that figurine look Egyptian, were they [View Full Entry]

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We crossed the small channel between the Greek island Samos and Turkey Asia Minor in a short time but waiting a long time to get things situated (İ'm using a Turkish keyboard and typing, slowly, with my mouth open. The biggest difference, the i which, apparently İ use a lot...} we crammed on with a large Italian tour group and were ushered off and into an ultra modern port burger king starbucks gummy bears so much to buy we couldn't find the exit but we did and walked to our hotel a re-vamped strong-hold/hotel for merchants on the silk road think [View Full Entry]

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We had the ultimate Greek dining/evening experience. A taxi took us up the other side of Patmos, the island where we were anchored for the night and dropped us off near a concrete-stoneworkers yard, followed the drive down to an authentic greek restaurant with rows and rows of tables we were the first to arrive at 8:30 pm and were guaranteed many locals solicited this very place there was a stage and kitties peering through the window and a wonderful view of the bay up and over there to the right and we started imbibing and eating even though the place [View Full Entry]

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Tomatoes are amazing here not picked too early salads are Greek: tomatoes cukes purple onion green peppers olives(which i detested until i ate them here) feta olive oil it's dangerous eating it this country so much oil something is bound to get stained fish is expensive due to overfishing by the spaniards as they come in the straits off of spain and morrocco according to our captian so they have fish farms which can be seen from high up on the islands big rings of nets in the ocean octopus is big/popular hanging over wires above the fire being squished about/slappe [View Full Entry]

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we boarded the largest boat in the universe to get to one of the smaller ones this ferry boat had escalators bars gift shops restaraunts cafeterias cafes movie theater seating in coach cabins in not coach people camped out on deck dogs and kittens in cages by the engine not the best place to transport them we boarded at 11 pm and got in to Leros around 9:30 the island where we got on the sailboat we are on now we took a fast train from thessaloniki back to athens it was fast but hot no air flow many modes of [View Full Entry]

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Sailing is a whole other thing here, on this boat, than what i first learned five years ago on the Harvey Gamage doing Ocean Classroom no dock watch no bow watch each cabin has it's own head no hauling on lines no furling sails what's a winch? lines lie on the deck for longer than i'm comfortable with, uncoiled no charting our plot "see that island? that's where we're headed?" fresh water shower dinner on shore every night and although it feels cushy it is so nice to be on the water again so nice to feel like i'm on the [View Full Entry]

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Tour busses of the size found here in Greece are NOT meant to wend through ancient streets meant for horse and carriages and Peugeots so we rented a car (a Peugeot) and made our way from from the Athens airport (first taking a bus from Napflio, then a taxi to the airport) and went to Delphi which was not an easy day trip away from Kalampaka as our travel agent had insisted Windy, windy roads as in twisty, turny, easily car sick roads up and up and up severe switch backs and cars passing big trucks on iffy turns and the [View Full Entry]

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Meteora from the root word Meteoros "to be suspended in air" we came in the night Lights were trained on the rocks and it looked like fog to our tired eyes we logged an 18 hour day and 400 some km and as we approached we realized the scale of the rocks watching over these towns seeing pictures of this place before we came here made it look like cliffs by the sea but we are not so near the shore and the masses of rock are parts of an ancient inland sea thrust up between more docile hills and mountains [View Full Entry]

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