Sarande, Albania is only a 30 minute high-speed ferry ride from the coast of Corfu, Greece. It’s close enough that some people actually do day trips to this country and go back to Corfu in the evening. I know when planning this trip, I wasn’t entirely sure about Albania, but knew I’d need to make […]
MoreI didn’t detail my time in Corfu- but leaving the famous “Pink Palace” was tough, although my liver thanks me, I”m quite certain about that. From the moment I landed in Corfu, it was an experience- our driver, Socrates (no joke) was a little man who had either been drinking Raki all day and night, […]
MoreThere is absolutely no way for me to describe the islands of Greece and the INCREDIBLE time I had in Santorini, Crete, Zakynthos, Corfu, and Kefalonia. I stayed in a private cave villa, a 600 year old building once used by royalty, a family run beach resort with a lot of character, an immaculate hostel […]
MoreWe all made a conscious decision the night before to actually sleep in for once and hit up the Acropolis toward the end of the day. So, in the Uncle John and I strolled down the street and picked up some things for the crew for breakfast (real Greek yogurt!) and stopped at this incredible […]
MoreTraveling with 6 people allows for certain luxuries that I couldn’t afford on my own. For example, we hired a private driver for our day out at Delphi. He picked us up around 8am and drove us through the mountains for an hour before we stopped at a monastery that was ridiculously gorgeous. There were […]
MoreWe all made a conscious decision the night before to actually sleep in for once and hit up the Acropolis toward the end of the day. So, in the Uncle John and I strolled down the street and picked up some things for the crew for breakfast (real Greek yogurt!) and stopped at this incredible […]
MoreArriving in Athens was invigorating. I’m not sure what it was- that it was a modern (albeit ancient) city not unlike Rome or Barcelona- or that everyone was just SUPER friendly from the get-go… .but I was REALLY excited to be there. I think I actually skipped off the plane. I was also in “travel” […]
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