Category: History

  • Postcards Home: Old Epidavros

    Postcards Home: Old Epidavros

    I’m starting a shorter series here where I highlight places to showcase what we have loved about them. Last year we visited the town of Old Epidavros a few times and took a few short visits ashore.  It’s a lovely town full of waterfront taverna’s, charming traditional bakeries, cats (of course) and a beautiful church…

  • Happy Days in the Social Islands…..

    Happy Days in the Social Islands…..

    It’s been a funny season for us.  With no fixed plans of where to go we’ve spent a lot of time going back and forth across the Aegean this year.  4 crossings so far in the last 3 months.  This has had the benefit of us putting to rest some nerves about the windiest regions…

  • It’s All Greek To Me

    It’s All Greek To Me

    It’s always been a love affair between Greece and me. It has been since my arrival in Athens on my 21st birthday after a horror show debacle in Bangladesh. We had been offloaded from a budget airline flight in Dhaka and told we may get another in weeks, if lucky.  At that point we were…