It can only be one city...Athens, by night. A nice angle and distance from the Parthenon.
My climbing buddy.
Looks like a storm...but what do we know.
Jen negotiates the steep paths, trails and fall-offs.
In continuing our recall of earlier trips to various parts of the world, including local states, we are reminded of the exciting and meaningful trip to Greece. Then again, we could use the same wording, the same sentiment, for most locations. We have stated ad nauseum, we find the multitude of differing lands of the world truly beautiful, amazing and miraculous places. (Add one more to infinity.)
My climbing buddy.
Looks like a storm...but what do we know.
Jen negotiates the steep paths, trails and fall-offs.
In continuing our recall of earlier trips to various parts of the world, including local states, we are reminded of the exciting and meaningful trip to Greece. Then again, we could use the same wording, the same sentiment, for most locations. We have stated ad nauseum, we find the multitude of differing lands of the world truly beautiful, amazing and miraculous places. (Add one more to infinity.)
On our trip to Greece, Jenni reconnected with Jenny Lev, that’s a former school friend. We spent a little time on a couple of occasions catching up and understanding her path since leaving Northview High. As a bonus, local Jenny as well as Josette of Seattle introduced us to Vassi, a Zimbabwean, now a citizen of Greece. As we’ve mentioned frequently, the Zimbabweans are unique, a special people. Vassi, after meeting her and because of the regular communications she has with Jenni L, is the best of the best…truly a lovely person. We are fortunate for the interesting and decent people we have met over the years.
As an aside, we just reconnected again with two young men from Spain whom we met and spent time with during a trip to Romania. One of them, Lluis, is since married and now has a gorgeous son who at an age of a few months wears a striking bowtie. Serge, the other young man, strikes us as being a true gentleman. These wonderful occurrences, albeit short in duration, certainly add spice to life. Another quick snippet is that when we sat down for dinner together, Lluis warned us off salad dressing. We tried to explain to him that without it, there'd be little spice in our lives.
We were most impressed with the class of waiters employed in Greece.
Sunset in Chora.
Ascending Mount Olympus, one of the highlights of the experience...besides the local waiters.
Jen decided to go surfing along and up the creek in Crete.
While he found himself hitting a brick...stone wall.
We don't do 'selfies' so I would think we were not alone. These days the memories are in need of a tune-up, so to speak.
The Greek Islands are even more attractive than we had been led to believe.
Not a bad wake-up call.
It was quite a job to get this crowd to pose but Jen turned on the magic.
Gerontovrachos Parnassos. We used to know what this meant but now it's Greek to us.
Refugi Amalos area. Some tough and rough mountains.
"Any more lip from you, Girl, and guess where you might spend the night...you cute thing, you." In retrospect, we noticed the 'headstone?'...oops.
Meteora: Every now-and-again, we find religion.
Rooms with views.
We met a group of young Israelis on Mount Olympus (and a whole lot more later) and enjoyed their company. We suppose, everyone we meet is young. Special mention of Arik David, standing to my left.
A place to enjoy clouds, Maude, on top of the world.
On Gingilos: Cheeky girl, yet again.
Re-enacting the Marathon, 26 miles, two hundred yards of it...just completed a full two hundred yards.
Eventually, it all catches up with you. She gave one bit of lip too much and then collapsed from exhaustion...or was intimidated by the rocky climb awaiting her.
Love on the rocks (part 1).
Part 2.
Delphi across the canyon and up the mountain, after commencing from our hotel.
Delphi Region. We noticed cruise ships docking yonder.
Quite high and feels like we're in the clouds.
Coming down to cross the plains. (May not be true but reads nicely.)
Feeling a little edgy.
Climbing while looking for a place to relax.
"Oh dear! That's spoiled the rest of my afternoon."
Sunset in Chora.
Ascending Mount Olympus, one of the highlights of the experience...besides the local waiters.
Jen decided to go surfing along and up the creek in Crete.
While he found himself hitting a brick...stone wall.
We don't do 'selfies' so I would think we were not alone. These days the memories are in need of a tune-up, so to speak.
The Greek Islands are even more attractive than we had been led to believe.
Not a bad wake-up call.
It was quite a job to get this crowd to pose but Jen turned on the magic.
Gerontovrachos Parnassos. We used to know what this meant but now it's Greek to us.
Refugi Amalos area. Some tough and rough mountains.
"Any more lip from you, Girl, and guess where you might spend the night...you cute thing, you." In retrospect, we noticed the 'headstone?'...oops.
Meteora: Every now-and-again, we find religion.
A place to enjoy clouds, Maude, on top of the world.
On Gingilos: Cheeky girl, yet again.
Re-enacting the Marathon, 26 miles, two hundred yards of it...just completed a full two hundred yards.
Eventually, it all catches up with you. She gave one bit of lip too much and then collapsed from exhaustion...or was intimidated by the rocky climb awaiting her.
Love on the rocks (part 1).
Part 2.
Delphi across the canyon and up the mountain, after commencing from our hotel.
Delphi Region. We noticed cruise ships docking yonder.
Quite high and feels like we're in the clouds.
Coming down to cross the plains. (May not be true but reads nicely.)
Feeling a little edgy.
Climbing while looking for a place to relax.
"Oh dear! That's spoiled the rest of my afternoon."
The funny thing is that we reached a summit and were quite shocked to find that things looked a bit odd. Then we realized that from the other direction, people drove up to a nude beach. Suddenly, our opening line was no longer apt. Reality!
Back on Mount Olympus.
Olympus shines.
Islands in the sun with 'Dolly and Kenny'.
"Yo", she shouted, "Which way down?"
We termed this the quarry hike. In context, everything is beautiful...still hope for Jen...in context, of course.
Intimidating at times but sure beats the marathon, thinks an envious individual.
Could that be the nudist beach? Someone is really overdressed...thank heaven. Still, should have worn longs as well.
I suppose it's time to slip on...out of Greece.
Cheers,
Back on Mount Olympus.
Olympus shines.
Islands in the sun with 'Dolly and Kenny'.
"Yo", she shouted, "Which way down?"
We termed this the quarry hike. In context, everything is beautiful...still hope for Jen...in context, of course.
Intimidating at times but sure beats the marathon, thinks an envious individual.
Could that be the nudist beach? Someone is really overdressed...thank heaven. Still, should have worn longs as well.
I suppose it's time to slip on...out of Greece.
Cheers,
Jenni and Jeffrey
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