Minoa Hotel Monemvasia

... authentic stone and whitewashed walls with ancient timbers and an amazing terrace overlooking the sea. Our patio overlooking the sea was wonderful-- we spent our days there enjoying the sun and sunsets. <br><br>We were not completely lazy in Monemvasia. We did break away from our patio for a hike around a fairly treacherous trail that went around the entire outer edge of the island, we hiked up to the old town ruins, and John did manage to make it ...

... Wojna Trojanska. Spedzilismy tam 3 godziny, pluskajac sie w krystalicznie czystej, lazurowej wodzie i odpoczywajac w cieniu drzew. A potem czas bylo ruszyc dalej, w strone jaskin Diros... ENGLISH: After Sparta we headed towards Diros Caves. We skipped (from what we`d heard - beautiful) Mistra, as in the sunny heat we managed to stop two Bulgarian guys - apparently musicians, that drove us to Githion. They were supposed to do sth there (or ...

... Greece. I spent great quality time with Mr. K and his buddy Spiro - another Greek-American, who after living in the US for decades, retired back to the lovely Grecian homeland. Both continue to enjoy life (and break hearts of local Greek lovelies).... FOTOS below are largely of the absolutely STUNNING hamlet of Monemvasia....

... cold. The road down the peninsula to Areopoli is spectacular, with the blue Aegean on one side and the green mountains and the red tiled roofs of mountain villages on the other. At Areopoli we witness a religious procession, probably a wedding, though we don't see the bride and groom. We now leave the coast and traverse the peninsula though the mountains to the fishing port of Gythio. It is a beautiful town, and we leave our car beside the quay and park ...

... face each other, so if invaders captured one the others could fire on it. You can reach the fortifications from the town by a steps cut in the rock face (and at least originally covered by a tunnel), but there's somewhere over 800 steps and we weren't going to that much effort! It was all very impressive - even the zebra seemed a little awed by it all! Today we've decided to head down the eastern coast line for a while, then head off into the mountainous ...

... in a pension with a great view over the city. Lots of steps however to get there although we did use our car some to get up and down. Today we drove back to Athens and will return to Minneapolis tomorrow. Looking forward to seeing everybody and hopefully have some get-togethers on the deck. & nbsp; Bye for now, Dave and Nancy

... it odd, that the alarm clock showed a different time than my watch did, but I set the alarm for the same time as my watch and went to bed a little early. Even before the alarm clock buzzed the next morning, I was already awake. The clock said it was 5:45, but I decided to get up and get ready, just to be sure of catching the 7:15 bus. Outside on the ancient stone streets of Monemvasia, all was quiet...so quiet it could have been any time over the past thousand years, but ...

... Rose'. This isn't a very interesting name so we had a different one each day: Bendy Nose, Sandy Toes, Dandy Pose (after skipper Annalie's 'anchor drop' signal which is crossed arms, Adam Ant style), Wendy Wind Blows, Wendy House and finally Home She Goes. We struck lucky on day 1 with a dolphin escort, playing round our bows in the Argolic Gulf for about an hour, giving both of us a chance to admire while ...

... a steep bit. However, my map-maker had been a bit lazy and clearly felt that the inclusion of all the wiggles would be too difficult, so for instance a stretch of road south of Kalamata which descended in a steep switchback from about 500 m to sea-level was shown as a gentle curve......As a result the journey from Kalamata to Githeo turned out to be more savage than I had anticipated and I arrived in Githeo absolutely whacked but luckily found a very comfortable Hotel.

It is September, and we have decided to visit MANI this time. Our first stop is at GYTHIO, where we have lunch. Gythio is a beautiful port and so our lunch includes my favorite dish which is KALAMARI, sea shells, mussles, and of course my favorite starter OUZO.