Thessaloniki Delphi is only 2.5 hours by bus from Athens. Many visitors do a day trip from there. But if you really want to enjoy Delphi it is better to stay in it overnight. I woke up to a misty morning. The hotel room overlooked the valley and the Gulf of Corinth. The view was […]
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Meteora, Greece Thessaloniki is the gateway to Halkidiki. One cannot get in and out without passing through it. The first time I visited the city was when Elina, my host in Greece, went there to run errands and she took me with her. I spent most of the day at her friends’ apartment and only
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Kalives, Greece A day trip to Meteora started from Thessaloniki at 8 a.m. and it took 12 hours. We traveled by bus in the typically unhurried Greek way with frequent stops for coffee. The first monks settled in the area in the 9th century. The lived in caves until the 14th century when the monk
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Bulgaria to Greece, October 2020 In summer, Kalives is a popular resort on the Aegean Sea. In October, it is a sleepy small village with the population of 1,600 people. Kalives is located in Halkidiki region between the two fingers (smaller peninsulas) of Kassandra and Sithonia, The third finger is the famous Holy Mount Athos,
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Green Bird Farm, Bulgaria, Sep-Oct 2020 My 90 days without a visa in Bulgaria were almost up. It was time to move. I thought long and hard about my next destination and chose Greece where the number of COVID-19 cases was low. The coronavirus made traveling really tricky. There were many factors to consider. What
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Getting from Bulgaria to Greece turned out to be a challenge. These two countries have a common border and no convenient way of crossing it. My initial plan was to travel to Alexandroupolis, the nearest to me Greek port, and to start island hopping from there. I wanted to avoid popular islands like Santorini and
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