On our way to Greece
2019年10月2日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
Well, we made it to the Chicago airport, though our flight from Champaign was a bit late, and our next flight boards in about a half hour. This is a trip Joe has wanted to take for many years, so inもっと詳しく
Made it to Santorini!
2019年10月3日, ギリシャ ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
The flight to London was smooth, the flight to Santorini bumpy, but we arrived right on time at 4:15 p.m. The one little passport control cubicle was empty when we arrived, but thankfully we were theもっと詳しく
Ruins!
2019年10月4日, ギリシャ ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
Ruins and more ruins. First, we went to the Greek and Roman ruins of Ancient Thira, from about 900 BC to several centuries AD a city way up high with ruins of a theater, a garrison, lots of temples.もっと詳しく
Day in Fira
2019年10月5日, ギリシャ ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
We woke up to bright sunshine, and decided to head for Fira — main city, cruise ship central, tourist shopping heaven. Our hotel had offered us a spot on a fancy boat tour around the caldera and toもっと詳しく
Perfect Day
2019年10月6日, ギリシャ ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
Today was one of those “it doesn’t get any better than this” days. Our first stop was Oia, another village on the Caldera with impossibly perfect white houses and all those white and blueもっと詳しく
Island hopping
2019年10月7日, ギリシャ ⋅ 🌧 20 °C
It was a bit complicated to drop off the rental car and get to the port in Santorini for the ship to Mykonos. The port is a teeny tiny place, no room for car rentals, lots of crowds and chaos. So weもっと詳しく
Tourists in Mykonos
2019年10月8日, ギリシャ ⋅ 🌧 0 °C
So, today we had no plans, other than to spend the day walking around town and chilling out. This is NOT my normally preferred itinerary. But hey, it worked! We just had a lazy day, up to the iconicもっと詳しく
Tourists in Mykonos
2019年10月8日, ギリシャ ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
So, today we had no plans, other than to spend the day walking around town and chilling out. This is NOT my normally preferred itinerary. But hey, it worked! We just had a lazy day, up to the iconicもっと詳しく
Delos
2019年10月9日, ギリシャ ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
After a quick trip to the archaeological museum to see an amazing huge urn depicting the Trojan War, we hopped on a ferry for the half hour ride to the very tiny island of Delos. It is nowもっと詳しく
In Arachova
2019年10月10日, ギリシャ ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
I was not expecting today to be so easy and hassle-free. We had about a 20 minute flight to Athens, picked up the car and were on our way. Google maps offline worked perfectly and we made our way theもっと詳しく
Delphi
2019年10月11日, ギリシャ ⋅ ☀️ 0 °C
Well, I know very little about Greek History, and only a little bit about Greek Mythology, but I LOVED walking around Delphi for nearly 6 hours today. Joe is now sleeping it off, but he walked everyもっと詳しく
Delphi
2019年10月11日, ギリシャ ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Well, I know very little about Greek History, and only a little bit about Greek Mythology, but I LOVED walking around Delphi for nearly 6 hours today. Joe is now sleeping it off, but he walked everyもっと詳しく
Galaxidi and Nafpatkos
2019年10月12日, ギリシャ ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
If you’ve never heard of them, don’t worry, neither had we. I always try to have an extra day at each of our stops, so since we had been to the monastery and to Delphi, we had a day to findもっと詳しく
Travel day
2019年10月13日, ギリシャ ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
We slept in a bit, since today was a travel day. We were headed north about 300 kms, to an area called Meteora, where there are six monasteries dating as far back as far as the 11th century, all ofもっと詳しく
Loving the monasteries
2019年10月14日, ギリシャ ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
Meteora has six medieval monasteries all within an 11 km circuit from our base of Kalambaka. Bus groups leave early, forge ahead and get their visits done in time for lunch at a big taverna. We areもっと詳しく
More monasteries in Meteora
2019年10月15日, ギリシャ ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Since we hadn’t crammed all of the monasteries into one day, we still had two we wanted to visit. We asked at the desk for suggestions to round out the day, and presto, we had another great day.もっと詳しく
Travel to Athens
2019年10月16日, ギリシャ ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
We slept in, ate a late breakfast, and then drove to Athens. We took the back roads for some of the way, driving through villages and a big town or two. It’s fun to see how life happens for normalもっと詳しく
First day in Athens
2019年10月17日, ギリシャ ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
Today we decided to see a few of the “minor” sites and also visit the National Archaeological Museum. Hadrian’s Library, the Roman Agora, and the museum took up most of the day. We ended with aもっと詳しく
Plan B
2019年10月18日, ギリシャ ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
Well, I could not get Joe out of bed early enough for a trip to the Acropolis. The cruise ship groups start arriving around 9 or 10, so getting there by 8 is one way to avoid the hoards. So, on toもっと詳しく
Acropolis or bust!
2019年10月19日, ギリシャ ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
So once again we changed our plans. Last night at dinner, the manager of the restaurant suggested that we consider a mid-late afternoon Acropolis trip. If we took the “back door” entry, we wouldもっと詳しく
Last Day in Athens
2019年10月20日, ギリシャ ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
For our last day in Athens, Joe had just one thing he wanted to do — walk through the ruins of what is (probably) the site of the Lyceum where Aristotle taught. This is the place where Aristotleもっと詳しく
My Favorite Church in Athens
2019年10月20日, ギリシャ ⋅ 🌙 19 °C
One last breakfast looking out on the Acropolis. But now, with plenty of time to kill in a number of airports today, I got inspired. :-)
My favorite church in Athens sits in the shadow of the bigもっと詳しく














































































































旅行者Looking forward to reading all about your adventures! Have a fabulous time!!