Trikala (the coolest small city) and Meteora
(January 2023) Trikala -the cool one in Thessaly, not the other one in Corinthia– is one of the most beautiful towns I’ve visited. Many describe...
Vienna, the Quintessential Central-European City (May 2022)
I have always believed that the best time to visit Central and Northern European countries is during spring and that the second best is during...
Messologi, Agrinio (and a little bit of Aitoliko) – *Pandemic Edition*
For a long time, we wanted to visit our friends Panos and Evie in Agrinio. At last, we found the right time to visit and...
Andros (2021 Pandemic Edition)
Andros is one of the most accessible islands of the Cyclades. It is about 2 hours by ferry from the port of Rafina, which is...
Skyros is neither Sporades, nor Cyclades (but still charming)
Following an impulse, after Kate had a lot of stress in her workplace, we found ourselves in Skyros for a few days. She organized our...
Tony And Kathy's Cool Spots
The World's Coolest Places
(Photos from November 2011) This trip to Kalavryta, on 19th November 2011, was one of our first trips with our then 5-months-old baby daughter. Somehow the photos got lost in time and were never posted here on this blog. I remember that we needed more than three hours to get…
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(Photos from February 2013) As I have mentioned before the latest visit to Japan was my second one . My previous visit was very short and it was several years ago, in February 2013. That was a short workweek trip, and I had not enjoyed it as much as my…
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Staying at Hakone During my recent visit to Japan, I had the chance to visit Lake Hakone and Kamakura (in Kanagawa). The scenery in Lake Hakone was magnificent. I am not sure I have seen this much green before as in lake Hakone (me and Rey from Star Wars). Even…
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When I was telling people that I would visit Japan this August, their reaction was “Wow, this is a lifetime journey”. This is my second time in Japan. However this time I stayed longer and I had the chance to visit some places outside Tokyo and Tachikawa. Tachikawa was the…
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(Photos from the summer of 2016) When our youngest son, Dimitris, was 4 months old, we were looking for a nice place near Athens to stay for a couple of weeks in the summer. We found a nice apartment with a small back yard in a garden, in Nafpaktos which…
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(Photos from June 2015) Usually June is not so warm as it was in 2015, when we spent a long weekend in Pylos with some friends. We even had our first swim in that weekend, which was nice despite the sea being a little bit colder than I would like….
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