the youth hostel room

Athens - Corinth - Kalavrita

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January 2nd 2007
(FYI: pictures added on 7-January! Updated with smaller-sized but more photos on 14-January.) We arrived safe and sound (and on time) in Athens today. Chartered busses picked us up, along with 120 other conference attendees and families at the Athens airport. They shuttled us to the small ountain town of Kalavrita in the Peloponnese region of Greece. Along the route, we stopped at the Corint ... read more

Europe » Greece » Pelopennese

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Greece achieved its independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1829. During the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, it gradually added neighboring islands and territories, most with Greek-speaking populations. In Worl... ... read more