Wow, it’s been a busy return from our trip. Trenna says this was probably our best trip ever. I can’t disagree. Everything went so well and everything we saw and did was just amazing.
Into the Peloponnesus
Final Post and Pics from Our Greece Trip
Tag: Greece
Sorry for the Lack of Posts
We’re back in Athens for the last time on this trip, after spending an incredible time in Nafplion, Greece. What an amazingly quaint village in the Peloponnesus region of southern Greece. We drove down on Thursday morning, visiting ancient Corinth on the way, and spent Thursday evening and Friday there. Today (Friday) was (one of) Greece’s Independence Day celebrations, so it was really great to be there during their celebrations. The food was great and the people were so wonderful. Wow!!!
We get up at 3:30AM to go to the airport for a 6AM (11PM Friday Eastern Time) flight to Amsterdam. We have an 8.5 hour layover, so we hope to get into town for a bit and see the sights before flying from there to Atlanta. Looks like we’re supposed to get to ATL at 8:20PM.
I hope to post pics from our last leg in Greece tomorrow.
More Pics from Santorini
I finally got around to uploading the rest of the pics from Santorini. Wow, that place is so beautiful!!!
Goodbye Santorini, Hello Turkey!
Well, we just left Santorini and we’re sitting in the Athens airport awaiting our flight to Izmir, Turkey. We’ll get there after dark and have an 80km taxi ride from the airport to Kusadasi, Turkey, which is around 15 minutes from Ephesus. We’re staying at the Doubletree tonight, but not sure about tomorrow night. Playing that one by ear.
I’m slightly more nervous about this part of the trip since it’s much more of an unknown. I’m sure it will all be very interesting. And a learning experience.
From everything I can tell, all of the more dangerous areas of Turkey are over in the eastern border close to Syria and in Istanbul. So everything should be OK.
Pics from Santorini
Santorini is certainly one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever seen. And October seems to be a great time to be here. The crowds are light and the weather very nice, though a little cool for Trenna. I already know we need to come back.
Pics from Athens
Sorry it has taken me a bit of time to download and review the pics I shot in Athens. Here are a very few. Of course Trenna is posting 10x as many on FB. (Maybe I should just leave this all to her!!!)
Off to Santorini!
I made a bit of a mistake regarding the time of our flight today…
We’ve done so much prep in so little time that my memory was incorrect about our flight today. Instead of 6AM, it is at 7:20AM. Not too much difference, but it cost us an hour of sleep and $20 extra upcharge for the cab ride since our 4:30 departure was in the elevated midnight to 5AM period. Oh well. Better early that late.
And it gave us a chance to try out the new Priority Pass lounge access that came with our new Visa Sapphire credit card. This place is nice, quiet, and empty! Had some coffee and oatmeal, along with free internet.
We should be off to Santorini in a little while!
We Had a Great Time at the Acropolis!!!
Sorry, no pictures. Took lots of them with my Nikon, but haven’t had time to download them yet. Super tired tonight. Hope to be in bed before 9PM. As mentioned in the first post, we have a 4:30 taxi to the airport for a 6AM flight to Santorini island. We’ll be there two days. Should be relaxing. May be beautiful for pics if the weather’s right.
Trenna and I agreed that we both like Athens better than Rome, but really don’t know why. Same time of year, so it’s a fair comparison. Rome was so much more crowded. The major sights in Rome were so over the top; Athens is much more real and natural. But, be warned: walking across a street in Athens is pretty much like playing Crossy Roads, only in real life!
We’re in Athens!
We just made it to our hotel in Athens about an hour ago. I’m feeling really strange due to the lack of sleep and my body thinks it’s around 4AM. But it’s definitely daylight here and we’re about to leave the hotel and go to the Acropolis and the Acropolis Museum. This is the afternoon we have to see the sights in Athens, so we have to suck it up and get with it. You know we’re going to sleep well tonight!
And we’ll have to, since we have a 6AM flight to Santorini in the morning! Leave hotel at 4:30!!! Whose idea was that???