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2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version: 22September2026: Spetses: Cruising for Burgers on Spetses

If I recall Frank Zappa, was there one of his songs “Cruising for Burgers” on the “Burnt Weeny Sandwiches” Album? So we are cruising Spetses on a souped-up golf cart or should we call it a buggy? Perhaps I make the reference to Frank Zappa as on this buggy I feel like the damn touristContinue reading “2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version: 22September2026: Spetses: Cruising for Burgers on Spetses”

We arrived from Hydra to the nearby island of Spetses undergoing an island wide electrical blackout, so we required careful guidance from the ship to a waiting van to take us to the Poseidonion Grand Hotel. It was so dimly lit it would not have been difficult to take a few misguided steps and endContinue reading “2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version: 21September2026: Poseidonion Grand Hotel in Spetses: A Classic Grand Hotel and the Jabbering Yankees”

As we exited the Museum of History and Archives of Hydra I spied some ominous black clouds and lightning bolts in the distance. I advised Dearest F, T and I, perhaps a bit more speed was warranted to return to the hotel. Not heeding my warnings in a timely fashion we managed to nip intoContinue reading “2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version: 21September2026: Hydra/Spetses: Trapped by a Rising Swell in a Seaside Restaurant: Sailing into a Blackout”

This “one at a time hotel room”, or rather our “Superior Room”, permits only one person to prepare for the day e.g. to shower and dress. Dearest F did so first leaving me to navigate the tiny space and get ready which I did. I looked for Dearest F, I and T in the breakfastContinue reading “2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version: 21September2026: Hydra: Missed My Breakfast: The Unexpected Gem of the Museum of History and Archives and a Stalking Experience”

After a two-hour journey from Piraeus, we dock at Hydra one of the Saronic Islands of Greece in the Aegean Sea. Hydra Port (Hydra as we will refer to it as) is the sole main town of this small island with a population a little over 2,000. Hydra consists of a crescent shaped harbour aroundContinue reading “2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version: 20September2026: Hydra: Where Are the Donkeys? Squeezed in a One at a Time Hotel Room”

Crappy sleep on a cement bed with rock-like pillows at Ananti City Resort. The dirty laundry beginning to mount and as we are on a whirlwind expedition no time for visiting any laundry facilities. I conducted a brief inventory and have just enough clothes to make it to the 25September the day we fly backContinue reading “2026 Greek Travel Adventure: 20September2026: Trikala/Piraeus/Hydra: Give Me A Washing Machine: Where Can I Find a Good Latte?”

Months prior we had booked the Ananti City Resort in Trikala which is a 35-minute drive from Meteora. We, along with T and I, had received a post booking notice, sort of sounding like a warning, that there was to be a boisterous wedding celebration at the hotel on the night of our arrival andContinue reading “2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version: 20September2026: Delphi/Meteora: Against All Warnings We Travel Into the Eye of the Storm and Are Rewarded with Incredible Argentinian Beef”

We reach Meteora the most significant monastic centre in Greece after Mount Athos and is a protected UNESCO World Heritage Site. Monasticism began here in the 11th century reaching its peak in the 13th and 14th centuries when many devotees chose the ascetic life. There are six operating monasteries. I have visited two of themContinue reading “2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version: 20September2026: Delphi/Meteora: Warning Signs of Over Tourism in Greece? Death in the Rocks”

Up bright and early at 06:30 for a shower before breakfast. As so Euro there seems to a different shower system in each hotel. Turn? Pull out? Pull back and twist? Burn your tush or freeze it? Eventually you figure it all out. Just something to conquer and master in your travels and it isContinue reading “2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version: 20September2026: Delphi/Meteora: Please, Pretty Please Let There be a Petrol Station: Herds of Cows Blocking the Road”

Good-bye to Athens as T picked up the rental Land Rover and we assembled in the lobby after breakfast at 09:30 and off to Delphi. Most of the journey was on toll roads. Beautifully maintained and constructed. Once clear out of Athens the traffic is minimal and at points nonexistent. Two and a half hoursContinue reading “2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version:19September2026: Athens/Delphi: Communing with the Oracles, the Selfish Bicycle and Street Fighting Men”