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…
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…
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…
I’d promised Mara I’d take her to Paris when she was really young. With us going to Europe it became a no-brainer to go to Paris. We rented a flat in the 1st Arrondissement which was walking distance to the Louvre. Our flat was a 1 bedroom with a pull-out…