Greece

Location Description

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Mask in the National Archeological Museum in Athens.
A step-by-step visual guide to how the ancient Greeks...
Nick studying a statue of a kouros, or boy.
Nick peering over the railing of our balcony of our...
Contrast was poor in the last shot due to the extremes...
Another shot including our balcony pole :).
Pakistani-Greek solidarity parade. Clea, Nick and I...
Believe it or not, the metro (built in the 1890's) in...
Nick and Alison on our hotel balcony in Athens.
I call this one "Moonrise over the Acropolis". Note to...
Alison, Nick and Clea (obscured) on the supreme court,...
Slippery polished marble.
Theater of Dionysos, just south of the Acropolis, as...
Alison happy to be at the Acropolis.
Nick, Clea, and Alison approach the Parthenon at the top...
The Karyatids (not originals - they are either in the...
The Parthenon. It's a shame it was used as a gun powder...
I was fascinated to learn the architect actually made...
Temple of Olympian Zeus as viewed from the Acropolis. ...
In the agora in Athens.
Olympian Temple of Zeus.
Very large columns.
Olympian Temple of Zeus again.
I liked the way they presented this column, as if it had...
The remaining columns at the Temple of Olympian Zeus.
Statue in downtown Athens (no motion blur).
Santiago Calatrava bridge in Athens. Calatrava designed...
Murmansk, Moscow both shown on map with appropriate...
Alison and Clea on the way to Clea's house.
Nick and Clea washing fresh figs from the fig tree...
Inspecting a chapel in Clea's village of Kardamyli.
Sunset in Clea's village.
Clea explained to us that in many villages, small...
Grapes growing on the vine in Clea's village.
Sunset in Clea's village #1.
Sunset in Clea's village #2.
This is where Clea's mom goes to have her olives pressed...
Clea's one-room school house (up until 8th grade).
Stoupa, a village down the road from Kardamyli.
Alison, Nick behind, and the village idiot in the background.
Unfortunately, we were not able to make this musical performance.
John, excited to be taking a boat tour through a seaside cave.
Stalagtites and water.
What trip would be complete with out a Lotus or Loti...
Alison Clea and Nick in the southern Mani.
Octopus legs being dried out in preparation for a...
Self-portrait (with Alison) at the southern-most point I...
Birds at the Kalamata zoo.
Going shopping at a $1.20 store. (Credit to Nick for the name.)
Nick, getting a drink at the village well.
Nick and Clea at one of the gates into Messene.
Much like in Spain, Greeks take a siesta every afternoon...
Theater of Messene.
The baths at Messene. This picture shows where a...
View from the top of a theatre at ancient Messene. Note...
While wandering around Messene, Clea's mom discovered a...
Gymnasium.
Nick in the gymnasium.
Nick and Clea's mom standing on the toilets of ancient Messene.
Beach in the busy port city of Kalamata. We stopped...
Picture from the car on the drive between Kalamata and Kardamyli.
View of the Aegean from the road to Clea's village.
A swimming cove about 5 minutes from Clea's garden...
A house Clea's dad built.
Clea and Alison.
Greek sunset, a few miles south down the road from...
John staying out of the sun at one of the large gates at Messene.
On top of one of the towers surrounding a gate at Messene.
The four amigos.
Clea in a pensive moment at Messene.
This sort of thing was a common site outside...
Sunset in Patras, Greece, the evening I left on the boat...
I was sitting on some rocks watching the sun set before...
The Rion - Antirion bridge which links the Pelapanese to...
Some fisherman dude with the Rion-Antirion bridge in the...
Inside the garage on the ferry boat to Corfu. This was...
Somewhat poor picture of the Rion-antirion bridge at...
Even better than the disco or casino, was the Dog's...
View from my cabin window as I woke up the next morning....
Everyone getting off the ferry in Corfu.
Sunrise after the ferry had landed in Corfu.
View from my scuba diving boat my first day in Corfu. I...
Little fishies swimming around the dive boat.
First Elise sighting on the trip!
A $1.20 store (again!).
Old fortress as viewed from Old Corfu town my first...
View of Old Corfu Town from the top of the Old Fortress,...
On my trip, I found many strange pictograms and poorly...
View from my hostel on the west coast of Corfu.
Old fortress.
According to Clea, McDonalds really hasn't caught on it...
Leaving Corfu (view from the ferry before sunset).
Obligatory stop at the Byzantine tower in Thessaloniki, Greece.
Byzantine ruins amidst ugly apartment buildings in...
This was actually an Orthodox church, not a mosque. No...
Sunrise on an Orthodox church in downtown Thessaloniki.