Back to the village of Riza in Crete for an XL vacation (‘riza’ is the greek word for ‘root’). Last time we were there we took pictures of the village, this time we have pictures of everything else! (See the album with its captions in Google Photos)
When I think of near-tropical beaches with blue waters and forests pouring down to the seashore, always the Ionian Islands (the Eptanisa) come to mind. After all, I couldn’t be more biased about the beauty of the Ionian Islands: my mother comes from Corfu –Kerkyra. So we went to Ithaki…
One of the places we went site-seeing in Ithaka was the Cave of The Nymphs. The official site of Ithaki Island, states that the cave has, according to the myth, “two entrances, one for mortals and one for the gods. It has marvellous stalactites and according to Homer, Odysseus hid…
A quick trip to Nafplio again. I think I’ll never get bored of this town. Just some photos of the 75 I took were decent, so here´s a small album… (See the album with its captions in Google Photos) Â
I got this cool photo during a thunderstorm last Saturday… There’s nothing like 30000 A of electric current through the air, is there?
Photos from our bike tour in Spetses
The best thing about going to an island for the weekend is you can put everything behind you and relax a bit. It’s just like you don’t have anything to worry about anymore. So we did put everything behind and we laid back and relaxed, with a twist: on Sunday…
Well , fortunately we didn’t have to write ‘SAN FRANCISCO or BUST’ on a wooden sign and stand on the side of the road to get to San Francisco – is hitch-hiking evenlegal in California? However, it’s worth it even if you have to hitch-hike. I think what I liked…
…said Samwise when he returned home from the other end of Middle-earth. That’s how we feel now because of the terrible jet lag (inexplicably, it is the first time it is THAT bad — when we got back from N.Z. we were fine, compared to this). Nevertheless, we don’t bother…
We had a “long” weekend last week, and my big sis invited us down to Nafplio. The weather was terrific, sunny with a little bit of spring chill. I didn’t actually have time to get many good photos, but anyway, here are a few of them.