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I arrived in Berlin Thursday night after spending ten hours on two trains from Lausanne to Berlin. When I arrived in Berlin it took me a while to figure out…

Yesterday, May 20, I arrived in Lausanne with a plan to tour the official Olympic museum and Chillon Castle on the east side of Lake Geneva. Chillon Castle is a…

On my last full day in Bern I located a wonderful bookstore, highly recommended in Rick Steves guidebook with a roof top garden coffee shop. It was a wonderful spot…

My second day in Bern I decided to check out the Bern Museum of Fine Arts and the Einstein apartment since both will be closed on Monday (tomorrow). The Museum…

/I arrived in Bern around 11:30. My hotel is only two blocks from the train station so it was a short walk. Since my hotel room was not ready, I…

The resort towns in the Alps have two seasons. There is the winter season for skiers and other winter sports and then there is the summer season for hikers and…

This morning I took a cable car from Murren to the Schilthorn, a mountain peak located at 9744 feet. It has a restaurant, observation deck and of course a store.…

This morning I boarded a 8:55 train in Luzern and traveled to Lauterbrunnen in the heart of the Swiss Alps. From Lauterbrunnen, I hopped on a gondola where I boarded…

Today I decided to follow a plan described in Rick Steves' guide book. I took a bus from Luzern to Kriens, about 5 miles, where I would get on a…

I arrived in Luzern on a beautiful day, the temperature was in the mid 60s. The city borders both sides of the Reuss River at the mouth of Lake Luzern.…

View of Hydra Hydra Pavlos Kountouriotis Mansion Day trips arriving from Athens to Hydra Archive museum

The ancient healing center of Epidavros and its ancient theater is 16 miles from Nafplio. Epidavros was used by the Greeks and Romans as a center of healing. Ionic Column…

View of Nafplio from my hotel room. Beehive tomb of a Mycenean King. This tomb had been raided by ancient tomb raiders and all the treasure is gone. Ancient Lions…

Screenshot On the morning of October 6 we leave Monemvasia and will spend two nights in Nafplio. On the way we will travel through the heartland of the Peloponnese and…

We had a nice breakfast and then walked over to the old city at Monemvasta where we wandered around the old city. Some of us decided to make the hike…

Screenshot Hotel in Kardamyli Traveling Greece by bus The tour group of 26 people easily fits in the large tour bus. The bus driver is amazing at navigating this huge…

The tour group arrived in Kardamyli with nothing planned for an entire day. This gave everyone a chance to explore this cute little sea side town that sits on the…

The plan today is to leave Lagkadia and travel to Kardamyli, where we will spend two nights. While in route we will visit the ancient site of Olympia, the birth…

Today was an amazing and long day. After traveling by bus for over three hours we arrived at a railway station where we took a 90 minute cog train ride…

This morning we left Athens on a chartered bus to drive four hours to visit the ruins of Delphi and explore the Delphi archeology museum. The Rick Steves tour group…