While in Greece, if we were going to see old things, we might as well see REALLY old things! That was our logic anyway, so we made a trip to Mycenae, the home of a civilization that pre-dated the Greeks and peaked in the second millennium BC. To do the Read more…
During our trip to Greece, one must-visit spot for us was Ancient Olympia on the Peloponnese peninsula. Especially exciting was visiting right as Olympic fever was ramping up for the Summer Olympics in Japan. We definitely felt the Olympic fever (and no, it wasn’t COVID 😉 ) Ancient Olympia We Read more…
After doing a bit of island hopping, we took a ferry to the mainland of Greece and got ready to visit our fill of ancient Greek sites. The kids had been reading Percy Jackson and taking classes on Greek myths, so we were ready to go! After arriving at the Read more…
After our few days on Santorini, we headed on the Blue Star Ferry (the big, slow ferry – I would go as slow as necessary to avoid sea sickness!) for a two-hour ride to our next stop, the island of Naxos, Greece, the largest of the Cyclades island chain. With Read more…
We left Spain for the final time, and planned to head back to the United States for a visit before moving to England. The best way to get from Spain to Atlanta was through…Greece. Yup. That is thanks to COVID. But I don’t hate it because it finally got us Read more…
It is with great sadness that I report that after nearly four years, we have left Spain. This has been an absolutely amazing journey, and we have enjoyed it so much. Alas, reality calls, so we are moving on to…well, that is a story in an of itself, and when Read more…
Hello – we are still here! We have just been in a bit of a travel slump lately. Actually, let me rephrase that, we have been in a travel BAN lately! We spent a large chunk of the last school year stuck in the Granada province here in Spain. Being Read more…
BIG, HUGE, GIANT DISCLAIMER: We are lazy. This trip was back at the end of 2019, pre-COVID, back when travel was possible and the thought of not easily being able to hop on a plane and go pretty much wherever we wanted was unfathomable. How many other things were unfathomable Read more…
After spending the first few days of our trip to Lapland, Finland in the small town of Luosto in our log cabin (complete with sauna), we headed for the bright lights of Rovaniemi. Rovaniemi is a town of around 60,000. It is the administrative capital of Lapland, but far more Read more…
After months of travel around South America, we were back in Europe but we felt like we had one final trip in us before our big 2019 Travel Year was over. We had a few criteria in mind: we wanted to end our big travel adventure with a bang; we Read more…