Greece Travel Blogs

... that I was no longer with the group. When he turned and saw me he came back and we continued on seeing the real Greece. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiNuv_KkINI We walked through the Platka and enjoyed the beginnings of Carnival. There were kids in costume, ...

A travel blog entry from Athens by coryandlaura
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POLSKI: Rano przyjechalismy do Leptokarii. Jeszcze w pociagu zjadlam salatke wegierska z Lidla, na spolke z Marcinem. To mial byc dzien odpoczynku na plazy, na ktory z pewnoscia zaslugiwalismy. Tam zaczal bolec mnie zoladek. Do 15tej trzy razy biegalam ...

A travel blog entry from Leptokaria by bogna
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... and all sorts of things begin to appear on small plates.   A point of information for your travels in Greece---there's a difference between cafes and restaurants, and it's hard to tell one from the other sometimes...  Restaurants serve food ...

A travel blog entry from Athens to Mytilini by rawhideone
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POLSKI: Spalismy prawie do 11tej. Bylo tak goraco, ze krecilismy sie po mieszkaniu bez celu. Po prysznicach i sniadaniu znowu polozylismy sie spac. Marcina bralo przeziebienie (klimatyzowane lokale!) i od razu zasnal, ja polozylam sie w drugim pokoju i ...

A travel blog entry from Athens by bogna
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POLSKI: Rano stalismy przez ponad 2h, bezskutecznie probujac cos zatrzymac. Gdy juz calkowicie stracilismy wiare w Grekow, zabral nas... grecki mnich! Wywiozl nas na glowna droge i zaprosil na lunch w przydroznej tawernie (wino, ser feta, pomidorki i ...

A travel blog entry from Galaxidi by bogna
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  We have decided to stick around Nafplio today. We started out with a very hearty breakfast at the one restaurant that we were able to find open. It was called Popeye's. They had a very hearty breakfast with coffee. We were the only ones in the ...

A travel blog entry from Nafplio by coryandlaura
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... acropolis still arouse our admiration, particularly when we remember that they were built a thousand years before the monuments of Classical Greece. Mycenae is an amazing set of ruins that in the second millennium BC was one of the major centers of ...

A travel blog entry from Mycenae by coryandlaura
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... that, we saw the monument of Alexander the Macedonian too, which stands on his horse towards the most hated neighbor of Greece - Macedonia. A coincidence? After 6pm we met up with Marta from Couchsurfing. What a girl she is! As a Polish from Canada ...

A travel blog entry from Thessaloniki by bogna
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... , when my friend Marcin, after the April trip to Romania and Istanbul, said: "So, Bogna, in July we`re gonna hitchhike around Greece and Balkans, aren`t we?", I didn`t consider for too long. We were supposed to get a group of people to come along with us, ...

A travel blog entry from Athens by bogna
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POLSKI: Spod Pyrgos jechalismy w strone Patry chyba na 3 raty. Przez jakis czas szlismy tez wzdluz drogi i zbieralismy melony, ktore wypadly z furgonetek. Arbuz przy upadku sie rozkwasza, a melon nie. :) Wygladalo to troche tak, jak ziemniaki na ...

A travel blog entry from Patras by bogna
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POLSKI: Do Olimpii zabiera nas auto - budka kempingowa z Austriakami mieszkajacymi w Czechach w srodku. Marcin marudzi, ze przyjechalismy tu dla "jakis ruin", ale mnie wlasnie o to chodzilo :). Chcialam poczuc historie na wlasnej skorze. Wstep dla ...

A travel blog entry from Olympia by bogna
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... to see that place for half of my lifetime and it was well worth it. If I had only one thing to be chosen to  see in Greece, after all of these places I`ve seen so far, it would definitely be Meteora. On our way back to the camp site, we stopped by at ...

A travel blog entry from Meteora by bogna
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... Greek and foreign artists, manuscripts, as well as a large collection of traditional costumes from the various regions of Greece. We wandered the building relatively alone. It was a really peaceful morning. The old Assembly hall in the building ...

A travel blog entry from Athens by coryandlaura
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... so good. There is no room for dancing and people don't really know how to have fun. And we thought that the entertainment in Greece will be like in Poland but better. We`re gonna have to leave Athens soon. Maybe the province is different? We got back ...

A travel blog entry from Athens by bogna
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POLSKI: Wstalismy o 7 rano, a o 8 bylismy juz na drodze. Drugi dzien utknieci w tym samym miejscu. Gdy do 9:15 nic nie zlapalismy, poddalismy sie i zatrzymalismy nadjezdzajacy autokar. Mielismy dosc autostopa na jakis czas. Autobusami dotarlismy do ...

A travel blog entry from Delphi by bogna
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... four hundred churches and its wonderful breaches all constitute the island's trademark.   Jump to: Greece Part II - Santorini To view more photos of this trip, please visit my Greece ...

A travel blog entry from Mykonos Town by cristinaw
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POLSKI: Gdy przyjechalismy do Sparty, wyslalam sms Giorgios`owi z CS i znajwil sie po nas 20 min pozniej. Prysznice, kolacja (pyszne tzatziki - wyjadlam mu tego prawie cala miske!), a potem piwo w pubie. Giorgios okazal sie milym i sympatycznym mlodym ...

A travel blog entry from Sparta by bogna
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... of the Acropolis. The Stoa of Attolos has been rebuilt and it now holds historical artifacts from Ancient Greece.  The sculptures are beautiful. We walked around the whole complex spending a lot of time exploring the Temple ...

A travel blog entry from Athens by coryandlaura
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I booked a Pension in Nafplio using the Internet .  The place that I booked was called Pension Acronafplia in the center of the old town in Nafplio www.pensionacronafplia.gr . We arrived in Nafplio and realized immediately that it ...

A travel blog entry from Nafplio by coryandlaura
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... of what the Agora looked like in antiquity are stored.  The Temple of Hephaestus is the best preserved Doric temple in Greece and although much smaller than others we would see, it was a great first stop because it allowed me to appreciate what the ...

A travel blog entry from Athens by madman96
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 A work trip to Athens.

A travel blog entry from Athens by stevefn
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This morning we had to say goodbye to our new friends Pam and Roger as they were moving on to another locale while we still had another 2 days on Mykonos.  I enjoy Katie's last omelet of the sailing trip, she easily makes the best omelets ever, and ...

A travel blog entry from Mykonos by madman96
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... , relaxing on bizarre black volcanic rock beaches and, occasionally, just one too many drinks. Santorini? Brilliant. After a shaky start, Greece has finally delivered and ended on a high. So, to the top 5. In all honesty, Santorini hasn't been all ...

A travel blog entry from Santorini by marktjhung
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We set sail to Mykonos instead of Paros due to incoming inclimate weather.  The nauseating waves beat the boat back for 6 hours but at least we get to spot a pilot whale and make it safely, and vomit-free, to Mykonos where we raft up with a friendly ...

A travel blog entry from Mykonos by madman96
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... that we left. We wanted more time in Greece so we added an extension. We had no idea that the extension was going to give us the opportunity to celebrate Carnival in Greece. What a cool way to end the day! www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK6d9XQGuXk

A travel blog entry from Epidauros by coryandlaura
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A travel blog entry from Athens by lraleigh
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... after all. Our rail passes allowed us half off the price of a cabin upgrade so we got a room for our 23-hour journey to Greece. Day 33 - The hotel floated into port about an hour late so the train that we would have raced to get was long gone. Trains ...

A travel blog entry from Athens by tbassplayer
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Wake up after probably the best sleep in a few weeks and rent an ATV on which we spend the day going from beach to beach to beach... tough life here!  We went to town and looked at art and enjoyed crepes and ice cream.  Back at the hotel, we ...

A travel blog entry from Mykonos by madman96
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... place to also leave Greece as our last island was Samos but all we did there was transit through on the way to Turkey. Greece and in particular the Greek Islands have been, for me, a very, very pleasant surprise! Must Do's, Places to Eat and Where ...

A travel blog entry from Athens by duke_schewe
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... Top 5. And for the record - dominated the rice. Ios is a party island. Plain and simple. The party island of Greece in fact. Everything is entirely geared towards drinking, partying and maybe just a bit more drinking. Indeed, there are packs of ...

A travel blog entry from Ios by marktjhung
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