We spent the afternoon in the small charming city of Nafplio. It occupies a knockout waterside location beneath the towering Palamidi fortress and is graced with attractive narrow streets, elegant Venetian houses, neoclassical mansions, and interesting museums. It’s also chock-full of...
To forget the heat of Athens and Mycenae, we took a one-day beach holiday at gorgeous palm-tree-lined long sandy Karathona Beach. We had great parking in a shade of a big tree, the whole beach is flat and easy to walk. There are two restaurants and a few beach bars with snack food and...
We made it to the harbor of the picturesque and laid-back town of Galaxidi. Morning walks and quiet evenings with food or drink are very much the order of the day, as locals say, Galaxidi “talks through its silence”. The town is tucked away along the northern shores of the Corinthian Gulf...
Laid-back beaches and lush green landscape brought us to the Gulf of Corinth to a little charming town of Nafpaktos. The town was an important Athenian naval station in the Peloponnesian war. Town changed hands many times during the Crusades and the Ottoman–Venetian Wars. It was under...
A jewel of an island in the Ionian Sea, Lefkada remains surprisingly unaffected by tourism. It is famous for its dense forests and some world-famous beaches. It was not easy to drive through the island, we really do not recommend it with the big truck. But the island is very interesting...
We drove a 1600 meters long tunnel from Preveza to reach a narrow causeway, making Lefkada one of the few Greek islands that you can drive to ( 🛣 – 7,50 EUR). Lefkada was originally a peninsula, not a true island. Corinthian colonizers cut a canal through the narrow isthmus that...
Preveza town is located at the mouth of Amvrakikos Gulf in Western Greece. The town was built on the site of ancient Vereniki town, which was founded by Pyrrhus, the Greek King of Epirus in 290 BC. Preveza was built during the late 11th century after ancient Nikopolis town was deserted...
It was not easy to find any parking place in the downtown Parga, but we made deal with the big spacious parking, officially they do charge 1 EUR per hour, but we got it for 12 EUR from 15:00 till the 10:00 next day. Parga is a picture-perfect resort town located in northwestern Greece on...
We spent three days at The Masurian Lake District. It is a great lake district in northeastern Poland which contains more than 2000 lakes. The district had been elected as one of the 28 finalists of the New 7 Wonders of Nature. The Lakeland extends roughly 290 km eastwards from the lower...
Our next stop was seaport city Gdynia (parking 50 PLN), which lies on the coast of the Baltic Sea along the Gulf of Gdańsk, just northwest of Gdańsk city. First mentioned in 1253, Gdynia began as a fishing settlement. Major growth came only after World War I when Gdynia was returned from...