This post is part of a series called Greece 2021 Athens, Greece, May 2021 We visited Greece during Covid times, just as Greece became one of the few European countries that had started gradual slow-opening up for tourist in April 2021, with full opening on May 14. Since Greece was on our bucket list, we…
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This post is part of a series called Greece 2021 Our trip in Athens and Greece continues. Today was Dilshad’s 65th birthday and planned to get more sightseeing done. We took a public tram from our hotel and walked over to the Syntagma (Constitution square), the central square of modern Athens, where the Hellenic Parliament…
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This post is part of a series called Greece 2021 Santorini, Greece, May 2021 After a wonderful week in Athens, we left for Santorini island, the famous Greek island. We took a short 45 minute Aegean Airways flight from Athens direct to Santorini. There, we were picked at the airport up by the car rental…
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This post is part of a series called Greece 2021 Mykonos, Greece, May 2021 From Santorini, we took a Seajet ferry as foot passengers to Mykonos island; a pleasant ferry boat ride for 3 hours; passing multiple other Greek islands (big & small) in the Aegean Sea. At the Mykonos ferry port, we were greeted…
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This post is part of a series called Greece 2021 We left Mykonos taking a flight back to Athens, where we rented a car at the airport and drove west, bypassing Athens, towards the Peloponnese peninsula. The Peloponnese is a peninsula located at the southern tip of the mainland, 21,500 sq kms in area, and…
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