Pictures from Travel-Stained Life
We are a Midwestern-American couple who decided to take a chance at a life less ordinary and travel round the world for a bit. We quit our jobs, bid farewell to our homeland, and are on a journey to meet new people and see extraordinary things. Welcome to our page!| M | T | W | T | F | S | S |
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Things we learned: Currency: Euro (1 Euro=$1.5 USD) Places Visited: Athens, Santorini, Naxos, Meteora, Kalambaka, Kastraki, Thessaloniki (Kardia) If you want a seat, don’t book a train ticket 10 minutes before departure and arrive early to claim a seat. A bit of knowledge of the Greek alphabet goes a long way. Instead of celebrating birthdays, [...]
It’s been awhile since we have posted about the cuisine of a country so what better place to begin again than in Greece. I will start by saying that because I am not an eggplant (or olive) fan, I was probably denying myself some popular Greek fodder. I would also say that it would take [...]
After our return to mainland Greece from the Greek Isles we had some decisions to make. The obvious places to go include all kinds of fascinating ancient Greek ruins. Olympia comes to mind, the original home of the ancient Olympic Games, or maybe Delphi, which we understood to be the most impressive ancient [...]
Picture sapphire-colored roofs atop chalk-white buildings scattered on steep, rocky cliffs. Add a brilliant blue sky with matching ocean and you‘ve arrived in Santorini. As much as we’d love to go on and on about this well-known Greek island…the sunsets that paint the sky a million different hues, the black sand beaches that lie in [...]