Travel blogging….it’s hopefully coming back to me now…… It’s the first international trip since I returned to Honolulu from Petra on March 3, 2020; cutting the trip back a little early after spending time watching the pandemic spread on CNN. I have felt totally safe most everywhere — except on a packed Aegean Air A320, … More Greece, revisited — April 2022
The original plan was to spend 4 days in and around Athens, 2 days in Petra, and 3 days on the island of Chios. Chios is a Greek Island off the coast of Turkey (just west of Izmir), missing from most Greek Island itineraries. Sharon needed to go to Chios because the Hawaii artist who … More CNN and the Coronavirus
Petra, Jordan. The wonderfully “Ancient Rose-Colored City”. So many of you reading this (the idea of “so many” readers may be an overstatement) have been here, so I thought I would put a slightly different twist on this one. I became aware of lithographs of Petra done in 1839 by a Scotsman named David Roberts. … More Sketches of Petra
A long day trip out of Athens involved a 4-hr train ride each direction but was well worth it. It was a visit to Meteora, north of Athens in the center of the country. Meteora, a UNESCO World Heritage site, meaning “suspended in mid-air”. Game of Thrones did some filming here, which has contributed to … More Suspended in mid-air
Honestly, Greece had never been high on my list. Not sure why exactly, but maybe I figured I had seen a lot of other ”similar” places, like Italy and Croatia, and had seen Roman ruins just about everywhere in Europe. Hadrian did get around. But they had me at the first sight of the Acropolis. … More In Greece
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