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Travel Blogs from Agistri
Gazi: 'The Shoreditch of Greece'?!
After spending Friday night stuck in the flat due to the transport strikes, Saturday turned out to be my favourite day so far :-)
In the afternoon I met up with Cat who has lived here for a year. It quickly emerged that she went to Durham too so cue a two hour conversation about Colleges, Palace Green, Bill Bryson, Klute, law lecturers etc etc. In this cafe surrounded by palm trees we couldn't have felt further away from uni but it ...
The Islands
... swim. These specific type of urchins defend themselves by jabbing a pokey spine or two into anything that comes in contact with them. The spines break off and become stuck in one's skin. If not removed they become itchy and swollen as one of my roommates discovered. Once you know what these urchins look like it is quite possible to avoid them. On Friday we made our way by ferry to the second island, Agistri, one half hour ride from Aegina. This island ...
Day 16: OLYMPIA–TRIPOLIS–ATHENS. Thurs
... of shade from the huge pines and takes 30-60 minutes to cover it and has public washrooms as well. We left Olympia at 10:15 for our drive to Athens and made a brief rest stop at 11:45. It was interesting and sort of the Greece equivalent to stopping a hillbilly gas station. There were no banjo players but they did have two junk yard dogs. We stopped for lunch beside the famous ...
10 Hour Peloponese Taxi Tour
... This is where St. Paul was put on trial by the Romans. The site of Corinth is influenced by Roman architecture. Here we saw the Octavian temple and the Lechaion Way. Ancient Corinth also has a beautiful museum which is known for its beautiful amphorae. After seeing the site of Ancient Corinth we headed towards Acrocorinth which is 4 km (2.5 miles) above the main city.
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Rockin' out and hanging out in Greece
Hello again to everyone back home and to our other relatives and friends following along from other locations. We hope you are all doing well! We are falling a bit behind on our travel blogs. This one is from Athens, Greece and our last European country of the trip. Things are going good and we are having a great time seeing small parts of the world, tasting the foods, meeting the people and experiencing what the local people consider "normal ...