Crete |
The Villages |
Athens & The Peloponnese |
Back to the Adonis Hotel for Alexander's last day in Greece. |
Dinner at Maci | ||
A fancy restaurant for Alexander's last night in Greece |
The Bymans! | ||
Breakfast on the Hotel Adonis roof before walking up to the Acropolis. |
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Sitting on top of the world! |
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Shopping in the Plaka |
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Then to the wonderful new Acropolis Museum. | ||
Ready for Dinner in Athens |
Molly, Lori, Laura, Lindsey, James, Jim |
Everybody except Lindsey, who is in the snack bar eating ice cream with Pappou |
Molly | |
Molly & Laura |
Lindsey |
On the beautiful Agean Sea |
The Corinth Canal | ||
No bridge over water. No tunnel underwater.
Instead, a road that rises to let pedestrians and vehicles cross over the water |
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and then submerges to let boats pass over the road! | ||
Bridge over the Gulf of Corinth |
Sun setting on Kalo Nero and on our trip with our family. Lori, Jim, James, Laura, and Lindsey leave for Athens and Molly's flight home to Boston. Charlie & I continue down the Ionion coast. |
We remembered Pylos from my first trip to Greece in 1983. |
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Views from our balcony in the Ostria Hotel | ||
Dusk on Kalamata Port | ||
Our friends from Tourkolaika came down to Kalamata for dinner on the beach. | ||
Bette loves Kalamata! |
Views from our hotel balcony | |||||
The church next door to our hotel | |||||
Just as we were about to have dinner, the lights
went out. Charlie was not happy. |
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An hour and a half later, the lights came on, and all was well. | |||||
Bette's favorite breakfast restaurant in the world! | |||||
Our hotel, which, without a reservation, we were very lucky to have. |
A very nice waiter where we were about to have dinner went by foot to find a room for us, and came running back with the good news. |
No! We didn't even consider it. |
From the Top, where Bette was. |
From the Bottom, where Charlie was. |
Hadrian's Arch | ||
Restaurant & Parliament buildings on the Hill of the Nymphs. | ||
Vasiliki & Panayiotis are back to work
in Athens, and we stayed, once again, in their home on Lissandrou Street.
While they worked during the day, we walked around Athens, doing a little
shopping, a little sightseeing, and a little stopping for a Freddo Cappuccino
(my choice) and a Greek coffee (Charlie's). Each evening, Paniyoti had something special planned for us. Monday, it was dinner at a a favorite restaurant of Panayiotis with our friend from the Olympics, Stavros, and his bride, Yioti, who speaks three languages, Greek, German, and English. It was a wonderful evening. Tuesday, our last night, it was dinner at another of Panayoti's favorites and later dessert on the beautiful Hill of the Nymphs, which now houses the Parliament offices. A perfect way to end this trip to Greece, in a beautiful place with our beautiful cousins and friends, Vasiliki & Paniyoti. |
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Temple of Olympian Zeus |