After our stay in Turkey we needed to pick up a plane to Thailand, and the only way to do that was to go to Athens and pick up the flight there. On our first visit I argued heavily to make a trip out to Delphi. But, with the strikes and all, and our limited […]
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The Book on Ephesus
Yes, this is the same Ephesus that Paul preached at, and home to the church to which he wrote the book of Ephesians. It is also reported to be where Mary, the mother of Jesus, lived with the apostle John at the end of her life, and where it is thought they both were buried. […]
Bergama
On the 3rd of January we took a bus to Bergama. We hadn’t booked a place yet so we decided to check out a place called The Odyssey Guest House. It was on a small narrow street. When we got there we had to take our shoes off before we went inside. There were little […]
The Acropolis
On our second day on Athens we took the long hike from our apartment to the Acropolis hill. One dog companion later, we arrived at the Parthenon. They had rebuilt an impressive amount, and half of the ruins were new marble bricks. We hiked through the ruins, and came out in a large open area […]
Sicily
Sicily I am really sorry we haven’t been keeping up on our blog. We decided that we are going to use Sicily as our hanging out area, so we decided to relax and not post much on our blog. In Paris our time was taken up with sightseeing. The computer was used either for booking […]
London
August 18 When we arrived in London we went on the underground to our hotel on Belsize park. At the hotel we layed down and went to sleep. Later in the day we met Alex and Julia (our friends that decided to meet us in London). We went to their place and watched television and […]
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