Hello and welcome to the second half of my moving to Greece article (first half here). I have mixed feelings writing this article now, when we’re trying to figure out how to live with the coronavirus and what the new normal is. Hoping we’ll be able to find a way to travel as care free as in the before time. It’s also weird reminiscing about travel and exploration after one Continue…
The TL;DR version is we moved to Greece for the months of September and October 2019. The most common questions we got from people (from Romania) were “Why?” and “How?”. This first part will address the “why”, with the second part dealing with the “how”. Like most people, whenever I’m facing a complex decision, I perform a SWOT analysis. But let’s keep it simple here and just focus on the Continue…
Thassos is one of the most easy to get to destinations in Greece if you’re coming by car from Romania. And by easy I mean it’s just a short 10 hour drive from Bucharest – and that if you’re lucky with the queue at the two border crossings. You’ll also be taking a ferry, but there’s one every 30 minutes or so. So why come here? I guess most people Continue…
Unfortunately, the Greek trip had to come to an end, but not before I got to wander around the most famous Greek Islands with Hostelbay. So there I was, in the Samos Airport, trying to find my flight on the busy flights panel (“Oh, there it is!”): “Thanks” to Kayak and OlympicAir, my original 3h layover in Athens had become an overnight 18h one (apparently, OlympicAir changed their flight schedule Continue…
Boat trip again! This time we left from Pythagorio. We were heading towards… Apocalypse Island! Yeah, that’s a weird name to market an island. Still, this is one of the most important places for Christianity. Here, John the Apostle wrote the Book of Revelations. Today, the small island has 3000 permanent inhabitants. And 300 chapels scattered around – which reminded me of Albania’s bunkers. Our first stop was at a Continue…