Walking down tourist main street in the tourist area Platanias on Crete I could have told myself what'd I'd see: 2-3 Cretens and 312 Scandinavians, mostly Danes and Swedes.

When we took of to Crete I had hoped to learn some Greek but the only Greek I spoke was with the staff at the hotel! They were...

     The excitement of leaving the mainland and arriving on the Islands of the Cyclades, sent my heart a-twitter. This part of our journey is what I have been looking forward to for the entirity of the trip. The island of Tinos smells like fresh flowers in bloom and there is a...

     Upon leaving Athens, the day started out sunny and warm, and our next destination was Delphi - the Center of the Universe. My excitement could not be contained as we set out on our 6 hour drive to Delphi. This is where the Sacred Way begins and where ancient prophets sought the...

The late afternoon sun was still warming the city of Athens as Flight 3382 arrived from Frankfurt on May 26th 2008. The view from my miniscule window informed me that the land was dry and hot and had seen very little rain in the past few months. That impressive and heart pounding sensation of...

The temperatures have climbed and as the days hit forty degrees, the Mediterranean Soap Opera that is now my life, has swung into full force. Perissa is a small village, on a relatively small island and when not swapping stories at each other’s bars, over frappes gone warm, people discuss and dissect...

Perissa, Santorini

Having just stuffed my face with moussaka pie from the bakery behind my room, I have no choice but to drape, prone on my bed, and write – if for no other reason than to ignore the indigestion pains. Dishes are so big and the ingredients so nourishing, that it is quite possible...

I think just about every ship to cruise the Aegean since Noah’s Ark has called at Santorini, for it’s unique among the Greek islands. I suppose the date 1450 BC is as indelibly engraved on the mind of a native of Santorini as 1066 is to an English person. That’s around when Santorini erupted, to...

Thira, the Greek name for the famously beautiful island of Santorini, is in the collection of islands called the Cyclades, nestled in the depths of the Aegean Sea.

The four hour ferry ride from Crete to Santorini was far from uneventful. After an unsuccessful attempt at sonnet-writing, I made friends...

After a madcap dash through the Loutraki bus station and the Athens subway, I arrived with a very narrow margin for error on the dock for the highspeed ferry from Piraeus (Athens port, outside of the city proper) to Chania, Crete.

The long ferry ride (wherein I nodded off and on, meanwhile making quite...

Loutraki is one of Greece's relatively hidden gems. By relatively I mean that it isn't usually on the top ten tourist destinations (though by all accounts it can be as crowded and "touristy" as anywhere in Greece during high season) that people on whirlwind tours of the country list as "must-sees," though...

Global Vision International (GVI), one of the world’s most exciting and progressive volunteering organisations, is launching four new volunteering projects in Europe. Previously, GVI volunteering opportunities were only available via international travel, but now the feel-good factor can be found much...