Blogs from Greece, Europe - page 494

Ancona (Italy), Patras, Kifisa, Athens, Patras, Crete, and Mykonos Blog to come soon!!....Enjoy the pictures! ... read more

Wow! What a dreary way to start the day... it was the kind of day that thriller movies start at with... cold, lightly-raining, heavily overcast... But the weather is what it is... Heading out from the train station, I caught a bus to the central area of Thessaloniki. It has a long walkway along the ocean about five feet above the water... so it just drops off. One of the first things I noticed was Greek flags all over the place... seemed a bit over-patriotic at the time... hanging out windows, people selling them on the street, etc... more on that later. Thessaloniki has a lot left over from the Romans, and so I checked that out. Galerius Maximianus had a massive palace built there around 300 AD. Most of it has fallen apart/destroyed/built over, etc. ... read more

Hi all. Hope you are managing to keep up with our travel journal, & that it hasn’t been too much information for you just yet. We just returned last night from Greece, & although it was a bit of a cold trip (the weather was nice & sunny but the wind was a bit cold), we had an excellent time. We didn’t confine ourselves to Athens specifically, although we never really got out of Southern Greece. It was the kind of trip we really needed - to get out of dark rainy London in the wintertime, & I think Vaughan especially enjoyed the break from work. While he is back at work today, I have a break for the rest of the week, while school is out for mid-term, & it gives me a bit of ... read more

Sitting on the roof of the hostel with the Acropolis right in front of me havin a beer, olives & feta watching a shit hot sunset, awesome! After a 30 hr boat cruise (this ship was huge, bars, restaurants, a disco & an empty pool!) & a 3 hr bus trip I finally got into Athens. But the metro had just stopped @ 12 so I had to get a taxi but the driver didn’t really know where to go and had no English. So he dropped me closish to the hostel & after a bit of walkin about I got there and finally a shower and a bed, yer! I stayed in the Athens Backpackers & it was a top hostel, run by Greek aussies, a bar, kitchen, free breky, data projector for movies ... read more

Getting into the the groove of blogging here. Let's try and finish Greece and the rest of Europe, seeing that we've been in hot and sunny South America now for a month. Let's see, where were we? Ah, Leaving Nafpaktos on January 2nd, we were going back to Athens for a couple more nights before M&M left us to return to the States. Before returning to Athens we absolutely had to visit the historic ruins at Delphi. Southbound on a beautiful day, the morning drive along the coast was spectacular. The only problem for Holden was that his sunglasses had been lost somewhere around Meteora and the strong glare of the sun was overwhelming in shotgun - can't see all the beauty with one's eyes closed. After a while we turned inland and drove through the ... read more