Our Cottage

Day 8 - Athens to Milos

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May 8th 2011
I am having trouble with Blogger, so my posts have been inconsistent. Sorry about that. We spent our last half day in Athens scrambling to find myself a patch with the Greek flag. In the past, I’ve collected pins with the national flags and pinned them to my backpack, and then proceeded to lose them all, which is a bummer, because the pins are cool, and we gotten them from some pretty cool plac ... read more

Europe » Greece » South Aegean » Milos

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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