Blogs from Greece, Europe - page 492

Greece, 2006 Athens Aegina Hydra Poros Cape Sounion Tolo Olympia Delphi Mycenae Arachova Epidaurus For my first trip to Europe this was quite the way to start. An absolutely amazing trip that I don't have the time to re-cap at the moment. I will explain in great detail at a later date. ... read more

after all of my blabbering on my last blog entry, i realized i completely forgot to tell you why we are lost in translation. you see, we have managed to fill up two 1GB memory cards...so over 1900 pictures. and in the course of making sure we see everything and snap all those pictures, we have little time to transfer them onto a cd and then post them. well we decided that we would tackle that task today. so here we are at the biggest mall possibly in greece....very westernized...we feel very at home... except for the indoor smoking...and begin walking around to find a place to transfer our pictures so that we can erase the card and start over. which by the way, scares me half to death. but we walk all 4 levels and ... read more

Didn't have a brilliant night's sleep, so we were both pretty tired this morning. We weren't 100% certain what we were going to do today, particularly when we walked into town and it was sooooo windy. I was constantly getting grit and dust in my eyes, so it was hell for Beck with her contacts in. Over another gyros we decided to stick to our original plan and head to Perissa. We had to wait a little while for the bus to Perissa, but it must be said that the buses in Greece are very reliable and comfortable. Each bus has a driver (obviously) and an attendant who collects the money. We originally had the idea of going to Akrotiri as well as Perissa to see the museum/archaelogical site, but we had reliably been informed that ... read more

The land of the monks, large majestic rocks capped with monastries to explore. You can see what why they placed themselves here but how is another question. They must feel like eagles in their nests, viewing the wonderful mountains and scenery all around them, this is truely a place in which to contemplate our connection to God and the Earth we live upon....... read more

The car had to be back by ten, but we didn't get up in time to do anything much with it. We were satisfied we had seen everything we had too anyway. The family who runs Hotel Grotto is so nice, and even though we have only stayed one night we are so impressed by how friendly they are. Part of our stay was a complimentary breakfast, and wait for it - they had cereal. It was by far the best breakfast we had had in Greece, and my muesli fix was just what the doctor ordered. There was also natural yoghurt which was bitter, but also very nice. After breakfast we walked the streets looking for a camera shop which would charge our camera battery. After running out of camera shops, and there were lots, ... read more