Greece

To date, we’ve visited Greece twice. Once for 10 days while still working when we visited Monemvasia, Santorini and Athens and more recently for about four weeks. In fact, Greece was the first international trip we wrote about on our blog.

We returned in 2025 to revisit Athens and Monemvasia, also visiting Crete with stops in Chania and the west, Heraklion’s archaeological sites and Agios Nikolaus in the east. We did some island hopping to Naxos, Paros and Antiparos before hitting the mainland for time in Athens and several stops in the Peloponnese (including Napflion, Mycenae and the return to Monemvasia).

Greece’s sparkling blue and turquoise seas shimmer with sunlight. Its warm sun fortifies your body and heals you from outside in. Its wonderful and variant food, from fresh lamb stew and goat cheeses to octopus and white fish and shrimp to fresh made honey with Greek yogurt and salads with sinfully large slabs of feta cheese make you overorder and overeat. Complimentary desserts and raki, ouzo or tsipouro often land atop your table at the end of a meal just when you can’t eat or drink another bite or drop (but you do). The Greeks live out loud, proud of their heritage and culture, welcoming you with wide arms and smiles, encouraging you to dive in and enjoy. The wild landscapes: tall rocky mountain peaks, vast sweeps of dry soil with groves of olive trees, cliffs tumbling down into the shimmering seas strike an emotional chord, the memories of which beg you to return.

Click on the links below for our pages by region of Greece we’ve visited and click here for tips on travel in Greece.