Our Tips for Travelers to Venice
After completing our third visit to Venice together, we finally feel like we are getting the hang of it. There’sContinue Reading
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A Guide in Venice: St. Mark’s and the Doge’s Palace
We began our Greek adventure in Paris and ended it in Venice. This might seem an odd route, but thereContinue Reading
What Athens in Greece, Stays in Greece
When I hear people talk about so-and-so went to Athens as their first European city I think: what were theyContinue Reading
A Circuit of the Peloponnese
Greece’s major islands and Athens are frequented by millions of tourists annually, but the number of visitors to the PeloponneseContinue Reading
Return to the Rock: A Weekend in the Castle of Monemvasia, Greece
We came here on our only other (to date) and first trip to Greece about 10 years ago and weContinue Reading
To Paros or Antiparos, that is the Question
Fortunately, you don’t really have to choose… other than where to stay. From Naxos, we took the short 30 minuteContinue Reading
Relaxing on Naxos, Greece
After a week in Paris with family and a week on Crete with a friend, we’d been living like DionysusContinue Reading
Easy-Going Eastern Crete
We arrived from Western Crete and Chania after a detour to have lunch and wander around Rethimno’s old town. AtContinue Reading
The Archaeological Sites of Heraklion Crete
Our guidebook was not full of flowing reviews of Heraklion but it did say that the Archaeology Museum was aContinue Reading
Winging it in Crete’s Wild West
I’ll be honest. It was a bit of a transition. Touching down from one of Europe’s richest countries and cities,Continue Reading
The Traveling Ridleys 