Thu 25 Feb 2010
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I got comfortable in my bus seat and prepared for my ride to the cave of Fancthi. When we finally got to the sight after about an hour, we were treated to a wonderful hike. It took about 30 minutes of walking along a beautiful beach and hiking up a hill to reach the cave. When we arrived, ::More
Sat 12 Dec 2009
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Merely 100m from our campground was a lovely rocky shoreline, But taking a look around, I saw ruins up on some hills beside the beach. We had unknowingly stumbled into Ancient Asine. A tiny little place, all but forgotten except for one tiny line in Homer’s Iliad mentioning them as ::More
Thu 23 Jul 2009
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Deciding what to see in the somewhat less traveled Peloponnese peninsula south of Athens was difficult, so we decided to essentially follow our noses, relegating our reading-up to “when we get there,” and arrived as rather clueless “innocents abroad.” For three weeks we followed the ::More
Thu 2 Jul 2009
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That’s a main reason we travel—to discover a place so healthy, magnetic and invigorating that we want to take care of it. It’s how I first felt so long ago when my father and I plunged deep beneath the waves of his childhood beach. Even in the muted light of the sea, the seascape was clear: ::More
Wed 27 May 2009
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Taking a day to play tourist in this fascinating city of Athens, and pouring over our guidebook looking for a good route, I couldn’t wait to hit the road and go exploring. I was going to be riding the new Piaggio MP3, named for its unique three-wheeled arrangement, and my friend Amy would be ::More
