If you didn’t start reading on Day 1, you might want to start from the beginning. Our hotel has been noisy, every single night. People talking, running up and down the stairs, doors opening and closing…all night long. But when somebody started banging on our door in the middle of the night last night, it […]

  If you didn’t start reading on Day 1, you might want to start from the beginning. For the first time on our trip, Greece welcomed us to a new day with cloudy skies. We walked to the corner in a light drizzle and dropped below street level to catch the metro. The red-line carried […]

If you didn’t start reading on Day 1, you might want to start from the beginning. We said goodbye to our cute little room in Nafplio and departed for Athens. It isn’t a long drive, only a couple of hours if you drive straight through. We, of course, did not drive straight through. When I […]

If you didn’t start reading on Day 1, you might want to start from the beginning. In the early 1800’s, the port town of Nafplio was chosen to be the first capital of modern Greece. A major reason was the Palamidi, a baroque fortress (said to be the most well preserved in all Europe) that […]

If you didn’t start reading on Day 1, you might want to start from the beginning I didn’t expect we would spend so much time driving in a country smaller than the state of Utah. Today we drove from Kardamyli, to Monemvassia, to Nafplio. I tried to remember our route and plug it in to […]

If you didn’t start reading on Day 1, you might want to start from the beginning … Today was devoted to exploring the Mani Peninsula. It’s rugged landscape and brutal mountain ranges kept it inaccessible for thousands of years. It was these very traits that brought refugees, desperate to escape the invading Ottomans, to settle […]

If you didn’t start reading on Day 1, you might want to start from the beginning … Patience Warren. I believe that is what Zeus tried to teach me as we visited what his followers considered his most sacred sanctuary. This hill was the birthplace of Zeus and where is father, Kronos tried to eat […]

If you didn’t start reading on Day 1, you might want to start from the beginning … Today was a long, exhausting day of travel. It started with a sad goodbye to the bay that had been home for four days. Of course, we couldn’t go anywhere until after Mikayla had her morning coffee. Rather […]

If you didn’t start reading on Day 1, you might want to start from the beginning … My original agenda for today had us taking a drive up the northern part of the island, up the mountain, and to the eastern coast and the “Mini-Riveria.” The thought of more driving, however, seemed to turn Mikayla’s […]

If you didn’t start reading on Day 1, you might want to start from the beginning … Last night Mikayla commented that she missed playing the piano and I suggested she go play the one in the lounge. The thought must have worked her over during the night because after breakfast she took a break […]

If you didn’t start reading on Day 1, you might want to start from the beginning … Jet lag forced me awake during the wee hours of the morning, again. At least this time the Internet worked but even if it hadn’t, I wouldn’t complain about sitting in the dark five stories above the sloshing […]

If you didn’t start reading on Day 1, you might want to start from the beginning … Wide awake at three in the morning seemed like a great opportunity to get up and go online, but no such luck. The gateway was down. Nothing is more frustrating than choosing a hotel because it has Internet and […]

If you didn’t start reading on Day 1, you might want to start from the beginning … Our first Greek breakfast was simple but tasty. Plain yogurt with honey, deli meat, boiled eggs, and cold cereal were pretty standard everywhere we went. And when it is free with the room, I fill up. We loaded up […]

Several years ago I promised each of of my kids a trip (Aubree chose Italy and Curtis went to Africa). Two weeks, one-on-one with each child exploring a foreign country. It is an idea I developed with our therapist (I think his exact words were “these trips will save you thousands of dollars in therapy […]