Site of the original Olympic Games Olympia is located in the northeastern Peloponnese region of Greece, nestled into a lush, green valley filled with trees and surrounded by dramatic hills and cliffs. This is the site of the original Olympic Games which took place in 776 BC as part of a festival honoring the god…
I finally feel like I’m getting some sanity in my life and finding time to write again! I won’t go into all the details, but the brief overcap of my last 18 months includes selling our home in California, moving to Greece, spending months in Minnesota to support family through health crisis, turning in 3…
My all time favorite travel memoirs to add to your reading list. Traveling is my favorite escape, but when I am not traveling, my next favorite escape is travel memoirs. Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert is one of the first travel memoirs I ever read, and I’ve picked it up many times in the…
Driving in Greece is not too difficult if you are a confident driver. Athens is probably the most difficult place to drive with the congested fast-paced traffic, main roads with many lanes, and narrow side streets. Driving outside of Athens is less stressful because the traffic will be drastically less congested, and I find that…
We’ve just finished the most fabulous dinner prepared by the wife of our host in Corinth: eggplant salad, fava bean salad, stuffed peppers, stuffed zucchini, pork and mushrooms over homemade fettucine noodles of the perfect thickness and tasting of the perfect amount of egg. I shouldn’t have eaten the chocolate cake that oozed liqueur when…
The sudden chatter of birds disrupts the quiet as the bells ring out in the city marking the sunrise over Oia. I count the chimes to seven, but the time is 7:17 am; close enough. Sitting on a deck of one of a hundred cave houses nestled into the hillside while overlooking the harbor is…
