 | I rented a quadbike
2008-06-24, Stalis, Greece. By: marek2552 | | I have several very crazy days behind me, finally. Those days I wasn't sleeping much, I mean 2-3 hours sometimes bit more. At nights I was working and during the days I was enjoying Crete and the beau... |
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| Earthquake!!!!!!!!!!!
2008-06-26, Stalis, Greece. By: marek2552 | | Don't panic, please! I'm alright and this story is going to be a bit out of day...
During my stay in Stalis in Crete I've already experienced an earthquake but I haven't even noticed it, though, it... |
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| Animals....uploaded
2008-06-17, Stalis, Greece. By: marek2552 | | Perhaps, you won't believe me but here it's almost like in a jungle! There're palm trees and other trees with or without beautiful blossoms....tararara.
But this story isn't going to be about flora... |
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| It's a week lol!!
2008-06-08, Stalis, Greece. By: marek2552 | | Wauuu, time is utterly fast and impossible to pause it or even to slow it down...it runs...
I cannot believe that but it's real. More than a week ago I was sitting out with my friends in Sliac or Z... |
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 | My first three days of digging
2008-06-05, Pylos, Greece. By: mariannas | | The first day we went to the site, we went later than normal because workmen were still taking out the backfill (at the end of the season, they have to put plastic over what's been excavated and then ... |
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| First day in Pylos/background about site
2008-06-05, Pylos, Greece. By: mariannas | | On Sunday, we went to the Palace of Nestor, which is a pretty significant site - Telemachus went to visit Nestor in the Odyssey. Nestor was one of the kings of Mycenean Greece (read: Bronze Age, time ... |
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| First few days in Greece
2008-06-05, Pylos, Greece. By: mariannas | | So I've been in Greece for about a week and a half now. The first week was spent in Thessaloniki, where my mom is from, and Halkidiki, which is where we have the new house. We mostly were running arou... |
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 | Direct words from my travel journal
2007-06-19, Athens, Greece. By: ksblond27 | | Tues. June 19, 2007 Plain 4ish at JFK Airport, Bye New York!
We just took off, and I am finally awake…I am still like Wow are we really doing this? I had a great end last night with my friends, “f... |
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 | My first Journey
2008-01-28, Athens, Greece. By: xkelleh | | I went to Greece a long time ago about 5 years ago. I want to write about it because it was my first real trip without my parents.
I remember the first day I heard of the oppertunity to go to Greec... |
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 | Ixus Axus - To Come and To Go
2008-01-11, Athens, Greece. By: kates08 | | On boxing day, as many of you already know, I headed off to Greece on my first venture away from my new home... alone!
My decision to head to Greece all begins back in University....
(cue starry d... |
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 | The Port
2007-08-27, Cefalonia, Greece. By: tjtunes | | Unfortunately I didn't get to check out the delight of the rest of the island, but even the port where the ship docked was pretty beautiful. Definitely a place to come back to with more time...
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 | Summary
2007-08-04, Thessaloniki, Greece. By: adsdan | | Seeing Greece has been a great experience and we recommend hiring a car and planning in advance but its so much fun and we gained so much satisfaction from doing it all ourselves…only thing is that it... |
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 | Thessaloniki
2007-08-01, Thessaloniki, Greece. By: adsdan | | Our final stop on our 3 month journey…this is a beautiful old port town in the north, 2 hours drive from Florina, on the Agean Sea. It is the second largest city in Greece. Its main bars and restauran... |
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 | Florina
2007-07-31, Florina, Greece. By: adsdan | | We finally made it to the northern tip of Greece where the small city of Florina is located. The drive from Prespa was amazing, huge mountains, dense green forestry and very twisty roads made the scen... |
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| Prespa Lakes
2007-07-31, Prespa, Greece. By: adsdan | | About half way between Kastoria and Florina and a little off the beaten track is a region called Prespa Lakes. These lakes form the triangular border between Greece, Albania and Macedonia. They are v... |
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 | Kastoria
2007-07-30, Kastoria, Greece. By: adsdan | | Kastoria is a picturesque town built around Lake Kastoria that is famous for its fur and is still the home of the worlds richest fur merchants. We happened to see a few mansions built on the surroundi... |
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 | Grecian & Albanian adventures
2007-07-28, Athens, Greece. By: samkateb | | We took the ferry from Italy to Greece (which for a 15 hr overnight ferry was pretty painless). We arrived in Patras & headed to Korinthos for 1 night which had a nice pebble beach, although there wer... |
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 | For Your Eyes Only - Meteora
2007-07-29, Kastraki, Greece. By: adsdan | | Meteora is an extraordinary place with ancient monastries atop massive pinnacles of smooth rock, making this landscape unbelievably beautiful.
Each monastery is built around a central courtyard sur... |
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 | Delphi & Itea
2007-07-28, Delphi, Greece. By: adsdan | | After a long drive from Nafplio, we arrived in Delphi. Delphi is built on the slopes of Mt Parnosses, overlooking the Gulf of Corinth and extending into a valley of cypress and olive trees. The ancien... |
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| Palamidi Fortress
2007-07-28, Nafplio, Greece. By: adsdan | | The vast & spectacular fortress stands on a 216m high rock with excellent views down onto the sea & surrounding town. It was built by the venetians between 1711-1714 & is regarded as a masterpiece of... |
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 | Nafplio town and marina
2007-07-27, Nafplio, Greece. By: adsdan | | Picking up the car from the airport, we got lost as soon as we drove out of the rental yard. Half an hour of frustration & trying to read a shocking map they gave us, we got onto the freeway. Now let ... |
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 | Athens
2007-07-26, Athens, Greece. By: adsdan | | Athens is a very old city and therefore the buildings in most areas are run down and generally it is quite dirty. The metro system is first class (only due to the olympics) as we caught it from the ai... |
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 | Mykonos
2007-07-22, Mykonos, Greece. By: adsdan | | Not making the same mistake twice, we made sure we disembarked in Mykonos! Our hotel was about 800m from the main town all uphill. Luckily port to hotel transfers were included.
Hotel Hermes has s... |
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| Around Paros
2007-07-21, Paros, Greece. By: adsdan | | Our last full day on Paros, we took the scooter on a journey around the island. Our first stop was Punda beach, a small beach renowned for its beach parties. About 500m from here was another beach whe... |
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 | Anti Paros
2007-07-20, Anti Paros, Greece. By: adsdan | | Today, Adam hired a scooter (he said no way to the slow grandpa cart ATV). The contract said do not take off the island, so the first thing we did was ride down to the port & take a ferry across to An... |
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 | Paros
2007-07-19, Paros, Greece. By: adsdan | | After an early rise and 3.5hrs on a slow ship, we arrived in Paros.
We walked along the foreshore stopping at many hotels, Dan as you could imagine, carefully inspecting the rooms. Finally, we foun... |
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| Amorgos by mistake
2007-07-18, Amorgos, Greece. By: adsdan | | It was 9pm when we boarded the superfast hellenic seaways vodafone catermeran, bound for Paros. No one told us there would be multiple stops...and as we were so tired, we didn't take any notice to the... |
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 | Santorini
2007-07-14, Santorini, Greece. By: adsdan | | Santorini is one of the most impressive places we have visited. We are staying within the main town of Fira, about a five min walk to the main tourist area atop the amazing clifftop overlooking the cr... |
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 | Kalymnos
2007-05-22, Kalymnos, Greece. By: jake | | It was tough to say goodbye to Lynnsay again, but considering she was headed back to work and I was headed to another Greek island, I can’t complain. (Thank you Lou!) Justin was a day late meeting me,... |
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 | Ios
2007-05-13, Ios, Greece. By: jake | | While Justin was hanging out on Crete, Lynnsay and I were living the good life on Ios. Because it was low season, we felt as if the island belonged to us alone. The service was incredible. We never ha... |
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 | Athens
2007-05-11, Athens, Greece. By: jake | | HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME! I was quite surprised to learn that Lynnsay bought a flight to Athens the day before we arrived. She would spend the next 10 days with me as a birthday gift. It was a nice change... |
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 | so random football game?
2007-05-24, Athens, Greece. By: euroamy | | ok so an interesting time in athens. the day leaving santorini we call to try and find a hostel. no hotstels. start calling budget hotels. nothing available. finally attie asks if somethings going on.... |
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| YES!!!
2007-05-21, Santorini, Greece. By: euroamy | | ok, so the bad weather karma is gone (knock on wood). we have had two beautiful beach days on Santorini- we are staying on Perissa beach which is across the island from the capital. They have been rel... |
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| seriously bad weather karma...
2007-05-19, Iraklion, Greece. By: euroamy | | ok so its raining again all day today. its now 7pm and the sun is starting to come out on crete. why you ask? because we are leaving tomorrow morning. however, we are hoping santorini will be good wea... |
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| lots of travel...
2007-05-17, Crete, Greece. By: euroamy | | so we went from venice to milan just cause our flight was from milan...from the little we saw, milan does not seem like much of a european city...and its not like i can afford to shop...so we took a p... |
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 | Time to leave Athens...
2007-04-03, Athens, Greece. By: Whitm528 | | Tuesday we left Athens. Julie and I definately covered the entire city and saw everything. Monday was nice because we had such a relaxing day and she and I were able to accomplish seeing so many wonde... |
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 | Monday April 2nd
2007-04-02, Athens, Greece. By: Whitm528 | | Today was another good day in Athens, although today was a little more relaxed. We took our time, woke up, had breakfast at the hotel and then got ready and headed over to Keramikos which included a l... |
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 | Sunday April 1st
2007-04-01, Athens, Greece. By: Whitm528 | | Hello, WOW it is already April!!! Happy Belated Fool’s Day to everyone. We had a very busy day and we once again saw so many things. We first went back to Hadrian’s Arch and the Temple of Olympian Zeu... |
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 | Saturday March 31st
2007-03-31, Athens, Greece. By: Whitm528 | | Hello again!!! We left this morning to go explore the Acropolis and we were able to see so many things already. We went first and saw the Theater of Dionysos. There are several pictures of it, it was ... |
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