Greek Islands
In and around Greece
Our Greek island-hopping travels, past and future, are listed below. As of 2009, the 2008 entries were the most complete. If the 2008 entries seemed to end abruptly, it's because the trip did suddenly end. My last entries were written from a Greek Hospital bed. We're currently in the planning stages for the next Greek Island trip, although it might be further delayed with some other travel destinations.
[Added Note: Apparently RealTravel removed some features and simplified the map since I wrote this section.] Now, try playing with the map. Click on it once to get a more detailed map, and then click on it again to get a "real" map. Clicking on our marked locations will pop up some of our pictures. The advertising and connected links, of course, are not under our control. Expand and drag the map enough to get a good island-hopping overview, and then try zooming in on a few beaches with the satellite view. You can even see the gorge trail and coastal trail on Crete where we will be hiking for a few days. I wonder how many serious sunbathers got recorded by the passing satellites.
With most of the 2006 entries, I included 10 to 20 photos. You can see the "full size" photos (500x500 pixels) by clicking on one of the small photos and then selecting "next photo" on each page to continue through the entire set of photos for that island.
From any island description page you can click "next travel blog entry" to continue on to the next island. When you get tired of looking at our 2006 island-hopping, try the Athens 2008 entry.
Remember, RealTravel's goal is to get you completely lost in their advertising instead of tracking the travels of Kathy and Marshall.. All of OUR pages display "Kathy, Marshall, Scott", so if a page doesn't display us, you're lost; back up when necessary. Click "Kathy, Marshall, Scott" on any page to return to the index on our blog's first page.
Route taken and entries by Real Traveler Kathy, Marshall, Scott
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1 Athens 2006
As with many other big historic cities, Athens has a lot to offer as well as a lot of big city chaos. With that in mind, we saw the incredibl... Continue reading »
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2 Santorini 2006
If you can only make it to one Greek Island, try this one.
A volcanic eruption in 1453 BC re-shaped Santorini from what may have been the los... Continue reading »
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3 Mykonos 2006
There are two kinds of travelers that come to the islands by ferry: (1.) The first kind can be seen dragging their wheeled suitcase be... Continue reading »
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5 Delos 2006
Everything is explained in Greek, but for us, that was the same as no explanation at all. One statue struck us as rather odd. He or sh... Continue reading »
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4 Delos 2006
We visited Delos as a day-trip from Mykonos. No one is allowed to spend the night on Delos because of the sacred nature of the island and Del... Continue reading »
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6 Paros 2006
That's Kathy - the tall one in the back row. The ones in the front rows are commonly called "dinner" and they appear near the entry of many f... Continue reading »
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7 Syros 2006
Syros wasn't on our list. A self-serving travel agent said that we could only get to Samos by first going to Syros. As a "non-tourist"... Continue reading »
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8 Samos 2006
We hiked up to the windmills on the hilltops for a quick look. The picture shows how big those things really are. I'm glad I wasn't sta... Continue reading »
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9 Kudasi 2006
This is a self-portrait taken while standing in line waiting to enter Turkey. The ferry that brought us from Samos is directly behind us.
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10 Ephesus 2006
This is George, our tour guide, sitting on a Roman toilet in Ephesus. He was demonstrating how to use the community toilet while socia... Continue reading »
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11 Ephesus 2006
In our photo collection Kusadasi and Ephesus are blended together, but they are actually miles apart and centuries apart. Ephesus is an incre... Continue reading »
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12 Patmos 2006
This is the same island that I visited in 1972 when there was only one car on the island. Progress comes at the expense of peace and quite.&n... Continue reading »
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13 Kalymnos 2006
It can take a long time for the bus to arrive if you are waiting at the wrong place. This handy sign should be mass produced so solve this pr... Continue reading »
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14 Kos 2006
We took a one-day excursion on this sailing vessel to some of the small islands between Kos and Kalymnos. They fired up the grill on a tiny i... Continue reading »
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15 Amorgos 2006
Amorgos is an island with a small fishing village and a few even smaller towns up in the hills. Our guest house host offered us his car (at n... Continue reading »
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16 Naxos 2006
No matter where you're headed in the Cyclades, there's a good chance the ferry will stop at Naxos along the way. It's a big island and a car... Continue reading »
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17 Folegandros 2006
As per our island-hopping tradition, we walked and walked and walked. We were tempted to take an excursion boat around the island to visit th... Continue reading »
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18 Milos 2006
Milos residents are cave-dwellers. The sandstone is very solid but easy to carve. We explored extensive caves that were used as catacom... Continue reading »
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19 Sifnos 2006
A dog adopted us on Sifnos and it followed us for miles and miles across the island. It would sometimes take a few minutes off to chase a cat... Continue reading »
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20 Athens 2006
Every Greek Islands trip begins and ends in Athens. This was the end of our 2006 trip. On the last evening in Athens we met with our Ge... Continue reading »
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Schedule change
Well, we haven't even left yet and we already had our first travel glitch. I bought the airline tickets in December 2007 and since then I hav... Continue reading »
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21 Athens 2008
4-12-08 We curled up in our Athens hotel room 27 hours after leaving Edmonds and we had a very restful sleep for a solid 6 h... Continue reading »
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Corfu (Kerkira)
(Written 4-17-08, but we didn't have WiFi until 4-21-08)
Today is Thursday April 17 and we have been on the road for one week so far.&n... Continue reading »
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Paxi
Paleokastrista 4-17-08. For our last full day on Corfu we decided to try going the opposite direction along the coast. Before lon... Continue reading »
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Antipaxos - the surprise
Antipaxi (or Antipaxos or Anti-Paxi etc.) 4-20-08. It seemed to be common knowledge around town that there would be no boats going to Antipax... Continue reading »
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Why stay in Igoumenitsa?
Lonely Planet says that there is no reason lto spend the night in Igoumenitsa, but we found one. The only ferry from Paxi got us to Igoumenit... Continue reading »
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Lefkados
Lefkada 4-22-08. Well, we escaped from Igoumitsa this morning. We made a clean 5-minute transition from one bus to the next at Lefkata... Continue reading »
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Fiskardo - The pain begins
I had a minor sore throat for two days and it was clearly getting the best of me when I woke up in the morning on Tony's boat. At Fiskardo my... Continue reading »
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Meganisi
We arrived at Meganisi at about 5:00 pm and the ferry landing looked like a poor place to find a room. We stopped a small bus that was about... Continue reading »
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Fiskardo, Kefalonia
After spending the night on Tony's sailboat, we took the first ferry leaving Meganisi. When we reached Lefkado, we were able to immediately g... Continue reading »
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The ambulance ride from Sami
Sami, Kefalonia 4-24-08. On this day I began my adventure into the world of Hillary-Health-Care. The Greeks already have the universal... Continue reading »
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Hospital Check-in
Argostali 4-24-08. When we arrived at the Emergency entrance of the hospital, we found that we were not alone. Kathy waited in a... Continue reading »
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IV's in the wrong hands can kill you
Argostali 4-28-08. It seems like I have had about 100 IV's run through me in the last few days. I don't know the actual count, but I am... Continue reading »
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Greek Orthodox Easter
Kathy's note: This has been quite an extraordinary past few days, to say the least. After Marshall was hospitalized, I had to get back to Sam... Continue reading »
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The Last Day in the Hospital
Argostali 4-29-08 7:56 AM. This is my last day in the hospital (I hope). They just came in and ordered “up up up up”, so I got of... Continue reading »
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Going Home
Argostali 4-30-08. Well, I was finally checked out of the hospital yesterday with no remaining signs of a sore throat. After a good nig... Continue reading »
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