Back to Greece! After our hiking day, we returned to Makrinitsa for a night and had – this will be no surprise – another excellent meal. First though, there were a few photos of the de Chiciro bridge that I wanted to add. It’s really very cool the way the…

John and I visited the Indiana Dunes today in a very dense fog and as always it was very much worth the trip! There were very few visitors, and no wind, no entrance fee. Visibility was so low that when we went over the skyway, only the bridge structure itself…

You may all be wondering if we’re still hiking in Pelion … short answer is no but we’ll get back to some posts to finish the Greece and Ireland trip after this real-time post about celebrating Maddie’s 9th birthday earlier this month and Christmas yesterday. We went to Naperville to…

(Back to photos from our vacation, though we’re back 2 weeks now!) After a day of great food, we were ready to walk some of it off, so we had arranged a hike this time with local hiker George, from the village of Chania to the village of Portaria. Pronunciations…

After a long day of hiking and visiting monasteries, we had another full but very different day in the Thessaly region of Greece. Here’s a map showing the town of Kalambaka, which is the closest town to Meteora and very geared toward tourism. We stayed in the nearby city of…

Thought we’d post this today, since it’s a food holiday in the US! Back to Pelion, it was really nice to get a good night sleep after our long, foggy drive to Pelion, but we woke up to a view from our hotel in Makrinitsa, a town that’s been called…

After Delphi, we drove through long, windy, mountainous roads, made worse by dense fog, but in the end it was worth it, as we ended up in the town of Kastraki, nestled in the spectacular landscape of the Meteora mountains, which literally means “mountains floating in the air” and is…

Monday morning we rented a car and drove to Delphi, which was about a 2 hour drive. The drive was fairly uneventful but we did note after paying a number of tolls in the cash lane that the toll takers we encountered were so attractive we wondered if there’s some…

We arrived in Athens on Saturday late afternoon, just in time to see the sun go down (quickly!) and runners still out on a 10k run that was part of the weekend-long marathon events. Our hotel is right on the race course, so it was really exciting to see them…

More on the Nana and Grandpa moving front! Their super nice neighbors Bonnie and Eddie put up this sign in the front yard, letting Nana and Grandpa knowing how much they will be missed! I had the chance to be at the lakefront near Navy Pier last week, and noticed…