Sparta Travel Blogs

    It's so HOT here in Greece!  I really was not expecting the overpowering heat.  And it's a real dry heat, too, the kind where you feel like you're going to spontaneously combust in the midday sun.    Yesterday, Jim and I headed into Athens to pick up anot…

taygetos is a mountain next to sparta in the southern peloponese. a 6 hour steep hike brought me and my friend Monika to the 2,407m high "profitis elias" peak, on a good trail. we camped on top for the night and next day we climbed a couple of lesser peaks before returning to sea level. we also visited nearby sparta and gythion.

The next afternoon we arrived in Sparta, once again staying in the ‘Hotel Sparta Inn’ which looked just the same as we left it. Sparta is still an empty town. Aubrey, Bridget, Amanda and I went for an iced coffee in an air conditioned café. The heat can be very draining. At 8:30 our professor,…

This is our second excursion Sparta and some island looking thing that had a castle and a sweet little town. Ps Sparta was kinda lame

Pictures from my three months of living in Athens Greece, side trips to Aegina and Santorini (also Cairo and Barcelona). Studied at City University downtown, lived in Illisia, embraced being a foreign local. Hellas for always.

The ultimate study abroad experience-- twenty eight students, three professors, forty cities, fourteen countries, four months.

Crazy Mom and 3 great kids adventure RV for 13 months to 28 countries! -- 4 Blogs: Part I Wild West USA, Canada, Arctic Circle, & Alaska -- Part II Mexico & Central America -- Part III Disney to D.C. -- Part IV Europe with an RV Exchange! ********* This blog is Part IV - Europe - March 20 to July 3, 2009

Just photos with brief explanations from 90 days traveling in Greece, May-August, 2003. Mostly Cycladic islands and archaeology, because I was there as an archaeology student. Explanations may be forthcoming!

3 weeks in Paris London Greece