15 December 2011 – Tour day 24

What a trip. More than 5,000 km by land, by the time we get home it will be around 37,000 km by air and who knows how far on foot walking around the various sites. It has been a very full trip and we have seen a great deal of places. Today was our last [...]

14 December 2011 – Tour day 23

It is hard to believe that we have seen our last archaeological site for the program today and tomorrow is our last day of activities. We have covered a lot of ground in 3 countries and tomorrow is the last day. So, to today’s program. We left Rome bright and early and drove down the [...]

13 December 2011 – Tour day 22

Rome is such a great city. We had a great day today starting with a tour of the Vatican museums. Rachel met us at the arranged time and guided us through the museums and on to the Sistine Chapel. She knows a lot about Rome. We finished up the official tour at Saint Peter’s Basilica [...]

12 December 2011 – Tour day 21

It is not too often that you can say, “well yesterday we visited the Acropolis in Athens and today we visited the Colosseum in Rome”. Pretty impressive really. We woke up at 5am this morning and got ourselves ready for the day. Breakfast at 5:45am and then off to the bus at 6:25am. The drive [...]

11 December 2011 – Tour day 20

Day 20 and our last day in Greece. We met in the lobby at 8:15am, Antonis arrived at around 8:25am, and we walked around to the museum. There are a number of museums in Athens so the one I am referring to is the New Acropolis Museum. We had an appointment so we got our [...]

10 December 2011 – Tour day 19

There is not a great deal to report today as it was a free day. When Brett and I went down to breakfast around 9am we found a large number of the group there already. Seems that we were not the only ones that decided to sleep in a little. Our hotel is in a [...]

09 December 2011 – Tour day 18

Did I mention yesterday that Nafplion is such a nice town? We it really is. We had such a good evening. The town was nice, the shower was amazing and the food was great too. I was very relieved when we managed to get the whole group on the bus this morning. I expect a [...]

08 December 2011 – Tour day 17

I am trying to think, yet again, of another way to start other than “today was a great day”. I have to admit, I really like my job. We started the day in the village of Delphi, on the side of Mount Parnassus. You just have to read that last sentence to realise why I [...]

07 December 2011 – Tour day 16

There is good internet at the hotel here in Delphi which is a nice change from yesterday. We traveled a very long way today. We left the hotel in Thessaloniki at 7am and had a tour of the city before setting out for the Meteora Monasteries. The journey took around 3 and a half hours [...]

06 December 2011 – Tour Day 15

Tonight we are having a treat in a 5 star hotel in Thessaloniki. We started the day with a walking tour around the city of Kavala, which is ancient Neapolis and the port city where the apostle Paul first landed. After the city tour we drove to Phillipi and when we finished there we drove [...]