Ohrid Encore

While Greece has been on our bucket list forever, and we originally booked Struga, North Macedonia as a filler destination until we could re-enter the Schengen zone, life has a way of surprising you.  It turns out that we LOVED Struga, but Greece is average.  Within the first week of arriving in Greece, we were looking at nine weeks in […]

Area Synest

We took a day trip out to Area Synest with our new friends we made here in Greece.  I never would have found this stunning little spot if it weren’t for Stephanie!  It was a beautiful area that felt like stepping into a fairy tale.  They even played relaxing, classical music all throughout the park while you were there.  They […]

The Cave of Lakes and Greek Mountain Explorations

We are beachfront on the Gulf of Corinth where we are staying.  However, immediately to the south of us are mountains galore.  This is part of why it takes forever to go around Greece to explore the various ancient sites as we regularly need to go up and over or around the mountains.  We have taken several day trips out […]

Gulf of Corinth Explorations

We are staying on the south side of the Gulf of Corinth.  We are about halfway between Patras and Corinth.  We have done some trips east along the coast to Corinth and west along the coast to Patras.  Overall, we are happy with the location along this stretch that we chose to stay in, just on the outskirts of Derveni, […]

Greeking Out, Part 1

A fabulous find from our Worldschooling group this year is a podcast called Greeking Out which is all about Greek Mythology.  We have listened to the entire series and are sad we are at the point where we are only listening week by week now as the new episodes come out.  We have learned so much about Greek mythology.  There […]