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Kitties galore: Greece is the place for cat lovers

August 3, 2025August 3, 2025 - 2 Comments.

Anyone who loves cats will love Greece. And if you don´t love cats, be forewarned: furry feral felines are everywhere.

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Greek stadiums: we celebrated body, mind and soul like Olympic champions

July 30, 2025July 30, 2025 - 4 Comments.

Pretending we´d won an Olympic event, Bill and I stood on the first-place podium in Athens´ Panathenaic Stadium, and I mentally relived my high school athletic glory days.

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Why did monks build Meteora´s monasteries atop high rock pillars?

July 5, 2025July 12, 2025 - 4 Comments.

We climbed hundreds of steps to visit monasteries built centuries ago by monks atop the high rock pillars of Meteora.

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Candles, carousing and cracking eggs: we celebrated Greek Easter on Hydra 

June 13, 2025June 13, 2025 - 5 Comments.

Dancing to pulsing bouzouki music may have had something to do with it, not to mention the wine and ouzo, but our Greek Easter Sunday lunch, on the romantic isle of Hydra, counted as a truly memorable meal.

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