As I wrote before in Mundane but Beautiful, one of our goals of traveling in 2013 is to look at the world with wonderment. This is a continuation of the idea. Places have their own flavor and atmosphere yet so often the things that lend that atmosphere are subtle. Here is a look at some [...]
One of our travel goals for 2013 is to “See the World with a sense of wonderment“. For me this partially means traveling like a 12 year old. So looking at travel and the world with the fascination that children seem to be so good at. Mundane and practical does not have to mean boring [...]
The Acropolis in Athens, Greece is one of the most famous structures in the world. I was there a few years ago when they were still doing work on it, so my pictures all have scaffolding. Athens wasn’t one of my (or Andy’s) favorite places in Greece, but I wouldn’t mind seeing this again without [...]
Ancient history is all over Greece. The ruins of Corinth are an easy day trip from Athens and provide a less crowded experience than the ruins in other parts of the country.
Meteora means roughly “above the clouds” and relates to the words meteorology and meteorite. This is such a good description of the area. The spires of rock near the town of Kalampaka once held many monasteries and havens in the caves and fissures of the rock, now only 6 buildings remain active. These orthodox monasteries [...]
To me, Santorini is one of the most gorgeous places in the world. This is a view of the volcano which shaped Santorini.
Meteora in central mainland Greece is made up of six active monasteries atop rock pillars. The Monastery of the Holy Trinity typifies this very well. It sits on top of its own own small spike of rock and like the rest only accessible via steep stairs carved in the rock. It was the smallest of [...]
On the far end of the Meteora chain of monasteries from Grand Meteoron stands the Holy Monastery of St Stephan. This one is quite a walk down the road, but worth it. The monastery stands at the edge of a cliff like all of the rest at Meteora, but unlike the rest has no steep [...]
One of the many things Santorini is famous for are the blue domes sprinkled throughout the island. Andy took this photo before joining a sailing tour of Greek islands.
I quite like photography as well as seeing connections in things. So this Capture the Colour contest is right up my alley. This is my entry to the contest. The point of the meme is to create a post with 5 pictures each highlighting one of the five colors: blue, white, yellow, green and red. [...]