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 40 minutes from Athens. We booked a long weekend on a very nice-looking hotel cheap, a little bit after the COVID-19 ban on transport was…
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 trip On the spur, in a day (ferry tickets and accommodation). We were thinking about going, but it was the fact that it was so…
In July 2019 we spent some days in Nafpaktos. This time we went to Trizonia, a group of islets in the middle of the Corinthian Gulf. There is a small village on one of them, which we visited. There is a really relaxed atmosphere on the island. Kids would play…
(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…
(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…
(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….
(Photos from August 2018) In the summer of 2018, we went again to Crete for 2 weeks. One place we had never been to was the abandoned village of Apano Symi (literally translated as “Upper Symi”). We had frequently visited the adjacent Kato Symi (“Lower Symi”) just to have lunch…
(Photos from March 2019) Feneos is an area named after a small village, which inherited the name of ancient Pheneus. It is in the region of Corinth, on Mt. Ziria (known also as Kyllini). The best place to go in Feneos is the artificial Lake Doxa. It is very accessible…
(Photos from December 2015) What can anyone say about Paris? Everything you’ve seen and heard about how spectacular Paris is , is true. This trip to Paris was back in December 2015, when we were expecting our little boy. Just a month earlier , Paris had suffered the consequences of…
On the last weekend of August we had a quick getaway from the city, to make amends for our ruined summer vacation. The weather was not what you would call optimal for a swim at the sea so we decided that we go to Karpenisi. Karpenisi is in a region…
