My solo journey of the heart and World
The next day I downloaded the Rick Steves audio guide for the Lisbon city walk. My plan was to do it in two parts over two days. I walked the 20 minutes or so down to the river front where the tour began at the Praca de Comercio, the large square right at the river front. Turning …
I managed to eat a soft crepe the next day before having John, the taxi driver, take me to the airport midday to catch my 4pm flight with a long stop over in Madrid. When I entered the airport two hours in advance I almost panicked because I saw the check in line that was as …
Jodi left early in the morning and it was just Debbie and I left. Debbie did some shopping while I did some work and worried about my dentist appointment later that afternoon. Our favorite taxi driver, John, picked me up and took me to the other side of town to the dentist I had made an appointment …
After Paros, we were taking the ferry to Piraeus port just outside of Athens. We got in the queue for the ferry and saw it slide in. It was way bigger than we imagined. After the people and cars and cargo disembarked, there was a line up of semi trucks that expertly backed into the hold, sometimes …
One thing I have not mentioned yet is the cats and the wine. First the cats, not just on Paros but in every place we visited in Greece. Street cats are everywhere and most of them seem quite well taken care of by the community, with some places even having city provided “feeding stations” for the cat …
We did a little more research on beaches this time so that we wouldn’t run into the same problem as the day before. Plus, the wind had died down significantly so we hoped that meant that more beaches would have hospitable conditions. We decided to try Golden Beach and that actually had good signage so we found …
Thank goodness for the AirTag I put in my suitcase. We got excited because upon checking my location app on my phone, it looked like our bags were on the runway in Athens at 9am, just as the agent at the airport had told us the day before. When it hit 10am, I checked again and now …
We had the same driver that picked us up at the airport in Heraklion on Crete pick us up at 8:30am in Rethymno to take us back to the airport. Because of the damage on Crete, some of the runways were closed so it caused a back up again and we were about 1 hour late …
We had another day of clouds and rain so we took it easy and counted on the weather forecast predicting that the following day, our last day, would give way to better weather. In the meantime, I started getting a pretty intense toothache in my far left back bottom molar to the point where I couldn’t …
We spent some of the rainy days just wondering around the old town of Rethymno, with its Venetian port and never-ending maze of cobblestoned pedestrian streets, enjoying some meals out. We decided to book a tour day back to Heraklion to visit the most famous ruins on the island of Crete, Knossos, and the Heraklion Archaeological …