• 5 Days in Gorgeous Santorini

    April 17, 2014 - By 

    In short, WE LOVE SANTORINI! Subtle enough?  We’d heard of the sapphire-blue waters, cute white villages, and breathtaking cliffs along the crescent of the caldera, and it all lived up to the promise (and then some!)  Easily one of the most beautiful places we’ve ever been. On our first day,…

  • Medieval Times in Rhodes, Greece

    April 16, 2014 - By 

    You ever walk around and expect Knights on horseback to storm out of a castle? Me neither, except in Rhodes! Rhodes Town (on the island of Rhodes) is dominated by walls and castles dating from the 1300s to 1500s, when the presence of Christian Knights was at its peak. The…

  • The Acropolis and Parthenon in Athens, Greece

    April 11, 2014 - By 

    Visiting the the Acropolis and Parthenon was never that high on my priority list.  I always figured I’d get there and it’d be cool to see, but it wasn’t a place I just HAD to visit.  I definitely got more excited to see it this year as I taught the…

  • 2 days in Athens, Greece

    April 10, 2014 - By 

    I’ll admit that I hadn’t heard the greatest things about Athens, Greece.  Dirty, crime-ridden, crowded and scary were just some of the adjectives I’ve heard over the years.  So when we decided to go to Greece, we knew we’d fly into Athens but only allocated about 36 hours in the…