Because we just hadnt had enough ferry rides, we added in one more (plus, once we arrived in Piraeus around 5 30 am, a subway, a city bus and then a regional bus) to get to the spiritual center of ancient Greece, Delphi. We spent only two nights, and unfortunately the thing I will remember most (well, maybe second most) is being tired, sandwiched as it was between two days of 24 hour travel. The site itself is a pretty good collection of ruins perched on the sl...

This time the ferry ride was quite long, with a bus ride thrown in at the end... all in all we traveled from 3:30 am until we reached Rethymno, Crete, at around 9 pm (with, of course, zero sleep). Crete is beautiful, full of rolling hills and mountains and surrounded by a clear sea. The sun here is brutal though; with no cloud cover, it beats down mercilessly all day long. The most important thing we did here was to go on a hike through the spectacular Samaria G...

Well, I'm happy to say that after the rather hellish traveling to get here, we were well rewarded. Rhodes city was possibly my favorite city on our whole trip... definitely the coolest medieval place on the map. Living in the old town was like being in a giant open-air castle! The outer wall was three layers of the most massive ramparts I have ever seen, complete with bridges and wide moats. Inside, narrow cobbled streets squeeze under the stone buildings whi...