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”
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2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version:19September2026: Athens/Delphi: Communing with the Oracles, the Selfish Bicycle and Street Fighting Men
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”
2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version:17September2026: Athens: Will I Feel the Spirit and Will I Cry at Check Check-Out!
Early this morning our buddies T and I from France arrived at the hotel. I phoned T around 09:00 and plans were to meet in a few minutes at the hotel’s rooftop café for breakfast. We had planned a 8 day tour of Greece with T and I and Anthology of Athens was to beContinue reading “2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version:17September2026: Athens: Will I Feel the Spirit and Will I Cry at Check Check-Out!”
2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version:16September2026: Stop the Welcoming Verbal Onslaught, I’m Tired! Athens
Easy peasy 45-minute turbo prop flight on Sky Express from Samos to Athens. A very small airport and as flight departures are few no passengers ahead of us at security so through that in a flash. As this was a domestic flight no need to suffer passport control at Athens Eleftherios Airport. Our baggage wasContinue reading “2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version:16September2026: Stop the Welcoming Verbal Onslaught, I’m Tired! Athens”
2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version: 15September2026: Pythagorio, Samos: Doryssa Seaside Resort to be Saved by the Bell of Renovation?
Hotels, no matter their greatness, take a battering through age and careless guests. You’ve seen it previously I am certain. Failure to renovate and the reputation of a hotel may plummet when word of deterioration hits the market. Yesterday’s darling may be tomorrow’s enfant terrible. One can’t fail to take note of the battering theContinue reading “2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version: 15September2026: Pythagorio, Samos: Doryssa Seaside Resort to be Saved by the Bell of Renovation?”
2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version: 12September2026: Thessaloniki: Of Old Farts, Second Rate Seafood and Rain
Returning from MOMUS and the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography we discovered at last the construction of the Holocaust Museum of Greece has started. There has been talk of constructing the Holocaust Museum of Greece for a decade and finally construction is underway with an opening expected in 2028. Germany has pledged ten million Euros forContinue reading “2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version: 12September2026: Thessaloniki: Of Old Farts, Second Rate Seafood and Rain”
