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Athens & Santorini, Greece 🇬🇷
A bit of a travel day today. Got up at dawn so we could be at the Acropolis/Parthenon when it opened. Smart. By the time we left, it was well on its way to becoming a 9th Circle of Hell situation. Cruise busses and mobs of people everywhere. The path to the top of the…
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Corinth, Greece 🇬🇷
Cruised back to Athens this morning. Lesson: It’s bad idea to put eyeliner on while the boat is underway through rough water. I look like a 5 year old did my makeup. My seasickness patch worked like a charm. Until today. Today I’m fighting Poseidon’s demons. Even though we’re off the boat, I’m still on…
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Korakia & Portokheli, Greece 🇬🇷
My new favorite (and I’ve already had many) Greek food is Bougatsa. It’s a traditional food from the region of Thessaloniki. It’s a sweet, custard-like phyllo pie with cinnamon. Ate more than I should have. Delicious. This morning, we tied up on the island of Korakia. It’s mostly uninhabited, except for (in the words of…
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Tolos & Nafplio, Greece 🇬🇷
This morning, we tied up on the island of Tolos, which has stunning, protected cove. Oh look, a cave. With water. Goodie. My basic position on caves is: never. I don’t have a good track record with caves. Getting near a cave always seems to end in a Xanax situation for me. Before today, I…
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Hydra & Spetses, Greece 🇬🇷
According to our captain, there are about 6,000 islands in Greece. 2,500 of them are inhabited. Cruised by the island of Hydra. No relation to Marvel Comics. There are no cars allowed on the island. Only donkeys. I can’t with the donkeys. Dropped anchor off the coast of the island of Spetses. No cars allowed…
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Piraeus & Poros, Greece 🇬🇷
First: Took some bootleg Ambien on the plane last night. Thought I might be immune to it at first, but it finally did its thing. Sort of. Slept about 4 hours, which is a really odd for me and international travel sleep. Didn’t feel totally delirious with exhaustion today. Airlines should give out packets of…
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Mykonos, Greece 🇬🇷
We loved Mykonos! No funicular, no switchbacks, no donkeys. No donkey shit. Still had to tender ashore. Still don’t like that process. Grabbed another delicious Greek coffee. Did some shopping. Took another 7,827 pictures of the girls. They will actually like/approve of 6 of them. Mykonos is breathtaking. The bougainvillea are so striking they look…
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Santorni, Greece 🇬🇷
Everyone has decided that tendering off the ship (going from big boat to little boat to go ashore) has jumped the shark. We’re over it. Santorini is one of those places that always looks perfect in the brochure. But what they don’t tell you is that Santorini is built on TOP of the island, not…
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Corfu, Greece 🇬🇷
Had ourselves an ADVENTURE today in Corfu. Stress-tested our motion sickness patches. We took a tour from the port up to Mount Pantokratoras, the highest point on the island of Corfu. Our 4×4 was driven by a gregarious Greek man named Nicos, who told us Corfu is beautiful and unique, but Crete is the best…