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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…

As most of you know, I made a decision earlier this summer to try a two week Rick Steves tour of Greece. Due to Hurricane Helene, my flight to Greece…

I decided to spend my last day in Belgium exploring the battle site of Waterloo and the fabulous new museum that was built in 2012. The battle of Waterloo was…

Yesterday, Thursday April 11, was a travel day. I arrived at my hotel, the Dominican, a Marriott hotel, at 1:30 in the afternoon. The Dominican is a very nice hotel,…

April 10 (Wednesday) I took a tram from the town center of the Hague to Delft, about 8 miles. Delft is a picturesque town with canals and a beautiful town…

This morning my first stop was to visit the Mauritshuis Museum of Art. This is a small museum which contains works from some well known artists. One of my favorite…

This morning I traveled by train from Bruges to The Hague. It required changing trains in Antwerp and Breda (Netherlands). In Breda I had only six minutes to spare, so…

I flew into Luchthaven Zaventem International Airport (better known as Brussels International Airport) from Washington Dulles on Friday morning (April 5). I took a two hour train ride from Brussels…

This morning I took the Red Line from Oriente station in Lisbon to get to Humberto Delgado Airport to catch my United Airlines flight to Newark NJ. The metro station…

This morning I left Porto and returned to Lisbon. I am staying in an area outside of the historic district and the site of Expo '98. The Moxy hotel is…

My biggest surprise, so far, on my exploration of Portugal, is how crowded Porto is with tourists. This city is crammed with tourists from all corners of the world. Porto…