Peloponnese 2023, part 12 (Sparta, Mystras)
Modern Sparta has almost no connection with ancient Sparta. For starters, modern Greeks are wiser than their Spartan ancestors and hedonism is an important part of »
Peloponnese 2023, part 9 (Monastery of Elona, Kosmas, Geraki, Gefira, Monemvasia)
The Elona Monastery in the Peloponnese, on the road from Leonidio to Kosmas, is an absolutely magnificent place, especially considering its location on the cliffs of »
Peloponnese 2023, part 8 (Agios Andreas, Tyros, Porto Sambatiki, Leonidio, Monastery of Elona)
I really don’t know, or rather I don’t remember, why it occurred to me to leave the main road while driving along the Arcadian »
Peloponnese 2023, part 2 (Mycenae)
After quite a good sleep, I woke up relatively early and had no reason to linger at the guesthouse near the northern part of the Corinth »
Peloponnese 2023, part 1 (Elefsina, Corinth)
When I went in Crete for two weeks back in 2022, it occurred to me that I could spend a similar amount of time exploring the »