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