Athens Trips

May 4, 2007. Toronto, Canada. Finally, I set off to Athens for a 23 day trip, alone. Quite often, I had friends asking me the similar questions, "Backpacking? Greece? Turkey? Why?" And quite often, I felt hesitant to answer. "The freedom . …

Steve (my bf at the time), Alice (Steve's sister) and I (Michelle) took a fabulous 25 day trip to Greece ! We planned the trip so that we would split our time between an islands vacation and time to spend with Steve and Alice’s family who live in …

Met up with Jon in the London airport, after a bit of worry that he wouldn’t make our connecting flight due to the delay of his flight from Boston. Fortunately for us he got to the gate just in time and our 3-hour flight to Athens arrived right o …

This a copy of the preplaning with hotels/flights/luggage information and more. I hope this will help friends follow my trip and help trip planners find information that might help them. DateTimePlaceAdditional InformationBagsCarryonThurdsay …

So, I left Boston last night and arrived in Dublin very early this morning. I had a 10-hour layover before my connecting flight to Frankfurt, so I took a coach into the city and did some sightseeing. I checked out St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin …

Finally, after hundreds of hours of research and planning, we set off for Paris, Athens, Zakynthos, Santorini, and Rome. Just to let you in on how I ended up planning this whole crazy trip... About 11 months ago we decided to spend the rest …

Round trip tickets from LAX to London Heathrow for $430. No, I will not stop bragging about it. :) Flight to London was direct, which was pretty sweet, but I still insisted on taking my backpack as carry-on because I'm used to short Southwest …

Flight from Vancouver (Canada) - Amsterdam (Holland) - Bucarest (Romania) - Tirgu-Mures (Transylvania) Due to the unexpected illness and unpredicted death of my mother, we had to leave a couple day earlier. Above is the South East Asia part …

Nate and I arrived in London Gatwick Airport, totally jet lagged, around 11 AM. We took the Gatwick Express to Victoria Station. It was quite expensive but very convient. When we got to Victoria we took out some cash and headed to our hotel …

Two excellent small cruise ships with easyCruise Life just edging it with more facilities and space. Good itineraries and ports of call, moorings normally at, or near to, the centre of town. But late morning arrivals mean some pre-planning …