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: 24September2026: Spetses/Athens: Last Full Day in Greece: The Talkative and Somewhat Demanding Taxi Driver
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”
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: 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”
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/Spetses: Trapped by a Rising Swell in a Seaside Restaurant: Sailing into a Blackout
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”
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: 20September2026: Delphi/Meteora: Please, Pretty Please Let There be a Petrol Station: Herds of Cows Blocking the Road
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”
