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Category: History

  • Postcard Home: Hydra

    Postcard Home: Hydra

    Like a bird on a wire… Anyone else love that song by Leonard Cohen?  Turns out that he wrote it here on the beautiful island of Hydra.  This long, skinny, jagged strip of an island is just a few miles off the Greek mainland and sits strategically between the Argolic and Saronic gulfs. I can…

  • 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…