Woke up and packed up for the last time on this vacation. Becoming weary of this pack and unpack. I see the theoretical attraction to cruising. No incessant packing and unpacking. Perhaps the sole advantage to travelling in seven story floating hotels except of course for the incessant buffets! Bring on obesity! I hear theContinue reading “2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version:Good-Bye Greece: Unpleasant Arriving and Unpleasant Leaving!”
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2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span version: 23September2026: Some Lack of Integrity Issues on Spetses?
The buggy tour of Spetses may very well have been the best moments of our trip with T and I. A thirty-kilometre tour along the coast replete with spectacular vantage points of forests, scrubland, secluded beaches and coves. I can’t recall even encountering any cars or motorcycles and the grilled octopus lunch at Paradise BeachContinue reading “2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span version: 23September2026: Some Lack of Integrity Issues on Spetses?”
2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version: 21September2026: Poseidonion Grand Hotel in Spetses: A Classic Grand Hotel and the Jabbering Yankees
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”
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
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”
2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version: 20September2026: Hydra: Where Are the Donkeys? Squeezed in a One at a Time Hotel Room
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”
2026 Greek Travel Adventure: 20September2026: Trikala/Piraeus/Hydra: Give Me A Washing Machine: Where Can I Find a Good Latte?
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?”
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
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”
2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version: 20September2026: Delphi/Meteora: Warning Signs of Over Tourism in Greece? Death in the Rocks
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”
2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version:17September2026: Athens: Plaka Good and Bad: The Ancient Agora of Athens: “Ruins Fatigue”
No doubt you may have heard about the Plaka District in Athens. The main shopping drag is a drag for me. Overrun by tourists drawn in by its proximity to the Acropolis and yes the cruise ship gangs poking around the touristic shops. T shirts, coffee mugs, postcards and over Greekified nick-nacks. Plenty of uninspiringContinue reading “2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version:17September2026: Athens: Plaka Good and Bad: The Ancient Agora of Athens: “Ruins Fatigue””
2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version:17September2026: Athens: Woken up by construction noises at 07:42 at Anthology of Athens
Geez woken up so very “gently” at 07:42 with hammering noises and a drill. Apparently they are constructing a few more additional rooms at Anthology of Athens. Not exactly the way to be woken up at a five-star hotel! I noticed from the rooftop terrace the hotel’s “swimming pool”. It doesn’t strike one as aContinue reading “2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version:17September2026: Athens: Woken up by construction noises at 07:42 at Anthology of Athens”
