To forget the heat of Athens and Mycenae, we took a one-day beach holiday at gorgeous palm-tree-lined long sandy Karathona Beach. We had great parking in a shade of a big tree, the whole beach is flat and easy to walk. There are two restaurants and a few beach bars with snack food and...
We took a highway to Peloponnese (🛣 15,65 EUR) to reach a hilltop backed by powerful mountains, where stand the somber and mighty ruins of Ancient Mycenae, home of Agamemnon, the legendary king who commanded the Greeks during the Trojan War. For four centuries in the second millennium BC...
We decided to spend five days in the city, from where many of Classical civilization’s intellectual and artistic ideas originated. It is generally considered to be the birthplace of Western civilization. When approached from the Middle East, Athens, with its tall buildings and trendy...
Eleusis Archeological Site is situated about 18 kilometers northwest of the center of Athens on the slopes of a low hill on the Thriasian Plain, close to the shore of the Saronic Gulf. Although little has been restored, the scale of its construction is impressive, as enormous pieces of...
The monastery of Moni Hosios Loukas, a UNESCO World Heritage site (entrance 4 EUR), is situated at a scenic site on the slopes of Mount Helicon. It overlooks a remote valley 23 kilometers southeast of Arahova. Dedicated to a 10th-century hermit Luke of Steiris canonized for his healing...
We spent the evening in the small mountainous town in Central Greece which recently became the biggest organized ski resort in the country. In the evening we walked uphill on cobbled streets with small houses to get great panoramic views over the Bell Tower, which sits in the center on a...
We spent one day in the ancient sanctuary of Delphi. For the Greeks, Delphi marked the very center of the world, a sacred space where human beings could communicate directly with the gods. Blending harmoniously with the superb landscape and charged with sacred meaning, Delphi in the 6th...
We made it to the harbor of the picturesque and laid-back town of Galaxidi. Morning walks and quiet evenings with food or drink are very much the order of the day, as locals say, Galaxidi “talks through its silence”. The town is tucked away along the northern shores of the Corinthian Gulf...
Laid-back beaches and lush green landscape brought us to the Gulf of Corinth to a little charming town of Nafpaktos. The town was an important Athenian naval station in the Peloponnesian war. Town changed hands many times during the Crusades and the Ottoman–Venetian Wars. It was under...
A jewel of an island in the Ionian Sea, Lefkada remains surprisingly unaffected by tourism. It is famous for its dense forests and some world-famous beaches. It was not easy to drive through the island, we really do not recommend it with the big truck. But the island is very interesting...