When we disembarked from the ferry, we were much more refreshed and rested than when we got on the ferry. We said goodbye to our little ferry hotel and grabbed a cab to the Athens airport to pick up our rental car. Halfway through the cab ride I realized I left my dress and shoes […]
Month: September 2014
Honeymoon Day 6: Crete! Palace of Knossos, Archeological Museum & the “Ferry Hotel”
Crete is a fascinating island with rich history and the site of one of the oldest civilizations in the world, and the oldest civilization in Europe. Crete has a special and rather strange spot in my heart. My wonderful sister, Elsie, and I used to play a old 1990’s PC computer game in middle school called […]
Honeymoon Day 5: Saying Goodbye to Santorini & Saying Hello to Crete
Our 5th day was beautiful, as usual, but it was sad. We had to say goodbye to Santorini that day, which was really hard for us. We decided we were going to be back as soon as we could. By the time we had to say goodbye, we decided we were going to retire there. […]
Honeymoon Day 4: Atlantis Books, the Famous Santorini Sunset, and the Red Bicycle Restaurant
We slept well that night – we were so tired after exploring and walking around Santorini. The next morning we woke up and enjoyed a nice breakfast at our hotel (I fed a cat an omelete…like an entire one…shhhh) and went wandering around Oia for some more adventures. The first place we stopped was a famous […]
Honeymoon Day 3 Part II: More Santorini Exploration, Fish Pedis, and…Don the Donkey Joins the Team!
Once we got all of our things settled into the hotel, I wandered around and petted some cats and dogs, and Andy checked out our hot tub and mini pool. The Residence Suites had a beautiful deck overlooking the caldera and a cute little front porch. You can see really beautiful pictures of the hotel […]
Santorini, Greece
Santorini was, hands down, my favorite part of the entire trip. The island was magnificent and more beautiful than I imagined. Santorini is a Greek island in the southern Aegean Sea, roughly 120 miles from the Greece mainland. It’s about 35 square miles and sits essentially inside an old dormant volcano known as the “caldera.” […]
Animals of Greece and How You Can Help Them
Andy and I saw a lot of dogs and cats during our couple weeks in Greece. Most were strays, many were injured or hungry, and almost all of them broke my heart. A couple times to the point where I simply was unable to emotionally handle it. When we first arrived back to Alaska and […]
Honeymoon Day 2 Part II: Temple of Olympian Zeus, Changing of the Guards, and Dinner at Ορίζοντες (Orizontes)
TEMPLE OF OLYMPIAN ZEUS After prying me away from Katrina the Kitty, Andy and I continued our exploration of Athens and made our way towards the Temple of Olympian Zeus, near the base of the Acropolis across the main thoroughfare of Athens. One section of the Temple of Olympian Zeus Construction of the Temple began […]
Honeymoon Day 2 Part I: Exploring Athens, the Acropolis, the Plaka District, and My First Animal Friend
ATHENS Athens deserves a little bit of a historical rundown in order to understand its expansive history and ancient monuments. Before we left, the few guidebooks and websites we read described Athens as over-filled with concrete apartment complexes, unbearable traffic jams, and unrelenting clouds of smog known as nefos. While Andy and I did discover […]
Honeymoon Day 1: Hotel Grand Bretagne and the Rooftop Terrace Restauraunt
Our flight left on August 18th very early in the morning, about 1:30 a.m., so naturally we had to be at the airport at 9:30 p.m. the night before à la Andrew Baldock/George Huxtable style (Elsie remember….”Everyone is at the airport! It’s a Wednesday!“). We had an ungodly number of connections and there were multiple points […]