Last full day in Greece on this 15-day trip. Yet another crappy sleep. Greek hotel beds have not been particularly comfortable and with dearest F’s penchant for the polar vortex no comforters in any of the hotels have helped create a good night’s rest. The usual top notch Poseidonion Grand Hotel Breakfast. T usually hasContinue reading “2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version: 24September2026: Spetses/Athens: Last Full Day in Greece: The Talkative and Somewhat Demanding Taxi Driver”
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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: 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: 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: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:18September2026: Athens: What a Meal What a View at Dionysos Zonar’s!
Dearest F has eaten at Dionysos a few times and based on her recommendations (always flawless of course) we ate a little bit on the early side at Dionysos Zonar’s with a spectacular view of the Acropolis marvelous during the day somewhat more magical in the evening. The cuisine and service were five stars. NotablyContinue reading “2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version:18September2026: Athens: What a Meal What a View at Dionysos Zonar’s!”
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”
2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version: 17September2026: Athens Imagine What Was! The Acropolis and the Acropolis Museum: Am I Watching Some Vulgar Television Show “The Two-Ton Family”?
A 10-minute walk from our hotel Anthology of Athens we are at the foot of the Acropolis and as luck may have it no human swarms. Probably beat the cruise ship locusts that destroy “touristic hot spots”. Passengers must not miss all you can eat post breakfast pre lunch buffet “with authentic Greek hamburgers andContinue reading “2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version: 17September2026: Athens Imagine What Was! The Acropolis and the Acropolis Museum: Am I Watching Some Vulgar Television Show “The Two-Ton Family”?”
