Athens Day Trips – Off the beaten path walk around Nafplio
A 40 minute walk that changed my life
My wife, my dog and I were walking in Nafplio, the first capital of Greece after the Ottoman occupation, and as is the custom of all the locals, we were walking along the promenade. The promenade itself is long, 2-3 km and at the far end of it, [...]
World Heritage Sites in Greece
Wow, just doing some updates to the blog and discovered that I really need to get to Samos and Patmos … this way I can complete my list of visits to the UNESCO World Heritage sites in Greece (it doesn’t count if I’ve been to some of them many times), it looks like the eastern [...]
Peloponeses journey
Just two hours by car from Athens is a world full of history, nature, mountain ranges that hide villages where life moves at a different pace, beaches only locals know and fishing ports untouched by time and tourism.