SirenSongWoman
Cathlete
Where in Greece do you live? I was all over Greece last October and was just wondering. I'm guessing the main island (or maybe Crete?), judging by all the discussions regarding equipment. Thanks.
Hey, Christosz
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christosz
Cathlete
Hey! Did you enjoy your time here? Where did you go?
I wish I lived on an island... Maybe some day I will build a house on a property my family owns on the island of IOS...
Although my fave island is ANDROS - beautiful Cycladic beaches, lots and lots of green (something you don't find on other islands) and clear streams where you can stop after a whole day of frying yourself on the beach and drink straight from them... just beautiful. There's also one of the best Modern Art Museums in Europe on ANDROS. And it's only 2 hours by boat from Athens - less than it would take me to drive downtown in my car!!! :7 :7 :7
I live in the suburbs of Athens which is quite nice cause I can't stand the traffic or the smog!!! LOLOLOL
I have family in Crete (beautiful and huge!!!) but I haven't been there to see them for a few years - they usually visit.
Cheers,
Chris.
I wish I lived on an island... Maybe some day I will build a house on a property my family owns on the island of IOS...
Although my fave island is ANDROS - beautiful Cycladic beaches, lots and lots of green (something you don't find on other islands) and clear streams where you can stop after a whole day of frying yourself on the beach and drink straight from them... just beautiful. There's also one of the best Modern Art Museums in Europe on ANDROS. And it's only 2 hours by boat from Athens - less than it would take me to drive downtown in my car!!! :7 :7 :7 I live in the suburbs of Athens which is quite nice cause I can't stand the traffic or the smog!!! LOLOLOL
I have family in Crete (beautiful and huge!!!) but I haven't been there to see them for a few years - they usually visit.
Cheers,
Chris.
SirenSongWoman
Cathlete
>Hey! Did you enjoy your time here? Where did you go?
>
>I wish I lived on an island... Maybe some day I will build a
>house on a property my family owns on the island of IOS...
>Although my fave island is ANDROS - beautiful Cycladic
>beaches, lots and lots of green (something you don't find on
>other islands) and clear streams where you can stop after a
>whole day of frying yourself on the beach and drink straight
>from them... just beautiful. There's also one of the best
>Modern Art Museums in Europe on ANDROS. And it's only 2 hours
>by boat from Athens - less than it would take me to drive
>downtown in my car!!! :7 :7 :7
>I live in the suburbs of Athens which is quite nice cause I
>can't stand the traffic or the smog!!! LOLOLOL
>I have family in Crete (beautiful and huge!!!) but I haven't
>been there to see them for a few years - they usually visit.
>
>Cheers,
>Chris.
Heck yea, I enjoyed myself. My GoAhead tour group started in Athens, went to Crete (Heraklion, Knossos, Rethymnon and Hania), transferred to Santorini, then Mykonos (Delos). Then we boarded a cruise ship for four days (Patmos, then to Kusadasi in Turky to see the ruins of Ephesus, Rhodes, back to Heraklion then Santorini, then winding down back in Athens). It was faaaabulous. I can't remember the name of the place on the tip of Santorini with the great sunsets, the place EVERYONE thinks of when they think of Greece, the place on all the postcards? That wasn't included in GoAhead's itinerary! Luckily, our tour guide thought it would be criminal for us to come all that way and not see it so he made sure we did. I took about 400 pictures on the trip and most of the really lovely one's came from there. I know what you mean about the smog in Athen's but what really shocked me was the way it felt so dark (almost apocolyptic), like the sun had trouble reaching the ground. Yet, every other place was nothing like Athens. The differences from place-to-place were so great it reminded me a lot of what it would be like here in the United States if New York City, rural Montana, and San Diego were all within a four hour distance from one another. We have a lot of contrasts here but having such differences so close to each other made each stop feel like a different country. Beautiful as Santornini was, though, If I lived in Greece it would probably be in Heraklion, Crete. I'm a city girl but I have to have sunlight and Heraklion is a bright city with a really hip vibe (great casual food, too). Our tour guide said you have to be Greek to own property in Greece, keeping the land from ever winding up in Turkish hands. I've been thinking about that a lot, lately, with what's happening to gas prices here in the U.S.. Several days ago I overheard co-workers saying we should punish the Saudi's for the high cost of a barrel of oil by jacking-up the price of American grain. I had to be the one to inform them that much of the farmland of the American midwest is actually owned by the Saudi's. They own the land and anything grown on it. I'm sure Greek politicians see us as a cautionary tale ("See what happens when you sell off your land to foreign interests").
But, yea, I figured you had to be in/near a major city because of your comments about gym equipment. I know it costs a lot of money to ship anything to an island or remote area, from my days as a catalog customer service rep, and it's a huge hassle. It has to be a lot easier to get what you need when you're right next to a city as big as Athens. But your reply makes me wonder what all I missed on my trip. Unfortunately, there's only so much money or time off work one can get so tours are always "Highlights of..." I'm a painter, though, so I would loved to have seen that art museum... I would also have liked to see what Athen's suburbs look like. Isn't that funny? Lot's of ancient ruins but what I really want to know is what the people in the suburbs live like.
>
>I wish I lived on an island... Maybe some day I will build a
>house on a property my family owns on the island of IOS...
>Although my fave island is ANDROS - beautiful Cycladic
>beaches, lots and lots of green (something you don't find on
>other islands) and clear streams where you can stop after a
>whole day of frying yourself on the beach and drink straight
>from them... just beautiful. There's also one of the best
>Modern Art Museums in Europe on ANDROS. And it's only 2 hours
>by boat from Athens - less than it would take me to drive
>downtown in my car!!! :7 :7 :7
>I live in the suburbs of Athens which is quite nice cause I
>can't stand the traffic or the smog!!! LOLOLOL
>I have family in Crete (beautiful and huge!!!) but I haven't
>been there to see them for a few years - they usually visit.
>
>Cheers,
>Chris.
Heck yea, I enjoyed myself. My GoAhead tour group started in Athens, went to Crete (Heraklion, Knossos, Rethymnon and Hania), transferred to Santorini, then Mykonos (Delos). Then we boarded a cruise ship for four days (Patmos, then to Kusadasi in Turky to see the ruins of Ephesus, Rhodes, back to Heraklion then Santorini, then winding down back in Athens). It was faaaabulous. I can't remember the name of the place on the tip of Santorini with the great sunsets, the place EVERYONE thinks of when they think of Greece, the place on all the postcards? That wasn't included in GoAhead's itinerary! Luckily, our tour guide thought it would be criminal for us to come all that way and not see it so he made sure we did. I took about 400 pictures on the trip and most of the really lovely one's came from there. I know what you mean about the smog in Athen's but what really shocked me was the way it felt so dark (almost apocolyptic), like the sun had trouble reaching the ground. Yet, every other place was nothing like Athens. The differences from place-to-place were so great it reminded me a lot of what it would be like here in the United States if New York City, rural Montana, and San Diego were all within a four hour distance from one another. We have a lot of contrasts here but having such differences so close to each other made each stop feel like a different country. Beautiful as Santornini was, though, If I lived in Greece it would probably be in Heraklion, Crete. I'm a city girl but I have to have sunlight and Heraklion is a bright city with a really hip vibe (great casual food, too). Our tour guide said you have to be Greek to own property in Greece, keeping the land from ever winding up in Turkish hands. I've been thinking about that a lot, lately, with what's happening to gas prices here in the U.S.. Several days ago I overheard co-workers saying we should punish the Saudi's for the high cost of a barrel of oil by jacking-up the price of American grain. I had to be the one to inform them that much of the farmland of the American midwest is actually owned by the Saudi's. They own the land and anything grown on it. I'm sure Greek politicians see us as a cautionary tale ("See what happens when you sell off your land to foreign interests").
But, yea, I figured you had to be in/near a major city because of your comments about gym equipment. I know it costs a lot of money to ship anything to an island or remote area, from my days as a catalog customer service rep, and it's a huge hassle. It has to be a lot easier to get what you need when you're right next to a city as big as Athens. But your reply makes me wonder what all I missed on my trip. Unfortunately, there's only so much money or time off work one can get so tours are always "Highlights of..." I'm a painter, though, so I would loved to have seen that art museum... I would also have liked to see what Athen's suburbs look like. Isn't that funny? Lot's of ancient ruins but what I really want to know is what the people in the suburbs live like.
christosz
Cathlete
You must be talking about the Kaldera, the place with the best sunset in the whole world. You can see the sun setting behind the volcano...
Boy, you took a long cruise!!! Fun!!! My relatives live in Heraklion and Elia, a small village just outside. It's amazing how much has Heraklion grew these past years, making Elia a suburb of it instead of a stand-alone village!
I really don't know how they do it, but a lot of foreigners have bought land in many parts of Greece- mostly Germans.
The suburb I live in is at the foot of mountain Imittos, and most days we have clear air, but when the wind blows North the smog gets "stuck" at the mountain and covers us and the surrounding suburbs... :-(
Apart from a few little coffee shops downtown or a few bars, I rarely go downtown, even for shopping...
Actually, some Athens suburbs are beautiful and some are unbelievably ugly. Mine is somewhere in the middle, although it looks a little like Desperate Housewives' Wisteria Lane at some parts! LOLOLOLOL
And when I say I live in the suburbs... I live 10 minutes on the subway from Syntagma square!!!:7 :7 :7 And just 5 minutes from my work - when riding my motorbike - 10 if I take my car.
Now that you mention it, when I visited San Diego it reminded me a lot of some parts of Athens, especially Glyfada and Voula, seaside suburbs in the South of Athens.
Here are some links of the Modern Art Museum on Andros island:
http://www.moca-andros.gr/en/
http://www.andros.gr/island/mst_en.htm
Chris.
Boy, you took a long cruise!!! Fun!!! My relatives live in Heraklion and Elia, a small village just outside. It's amazing how much has Heraklion grew these past years, making Elia a suburb of it instead of a stand-alone village!
I really don't know how they do it, but a lot of foreigners have bought land in many parts of Greece- mostly Germans.
The suburb I live in is at the foot of mountain Imittos, and most days we have clear air, but when the wind blows North the smog gets "stuck" at the mountain and covers us and the surrounding suburbs... :-(
Apart from a few little coffee shops downtown or a few bars, I rarely go downtown, even for shopping...
Actually, some Athens suburbs are beautiful and some are unbelievably ugly. Mine is somewhere in the middle, although it looks a little like Desperate Housewives' Wisteria Lane at some parts! LOLOLOLOL
And when I say I live in the suburbs... I live 10 minutes on the subway from Syntagma square!!!:7 :7 :7 And just 5 minutes from my work - when riding my motorbike - 10 if I take my car.
Now that you mention it, when I visited San Diego it reminded me a lot of some parts of Athens, especially Glyfada and Voula, seaside suburbs in the South of Athens.
Here are some links of the Modern Art Museum on Andros island:
http://www.moca-andros.gr/en/
http://www.andros.gr/island/mst_en.htm
Chris.
SirenSongWoman
Cathlete
Thanks for chatting back. The sunset place I was thinking of was on the tip of Santorini. We didn't get the fabulous sunset everyone was hoping for because it was overcast but MY pictures of the sun through the clouds turned out great.
I spent my last "vacation" cleaning house and will do the same in June. When I told co-workers, the other day, that I spend my vacations cleaning they were like "YOU GOT TO GO TO GREEEEEEECE!"
I spent my last "vacation" cleaning house and will do the same in June. When I told co-workers, the other day, that I spend my vacations cleaning they were like "YOU GOT TO GO TO GREEEEEEECE!"
christosz
Cathlete
:7 :7 :7 :7
Don't feel bad... We get to work until August... then we're off to a 2-week vacation (if we can afford it...:-( ) otherwise it would be short day trips for sunbathing and swimming to the surrounding beaches, which are no that clean...
But... we'll be able to watch Mamma Mia! The Movie... LOLOLOL
Chris.
Don't feel bad... We get to work until August... then we're off to a 2-week vacation (if we can afford it...:-( ) otherwise it would be short day trips for sunbathing and swimming to the surrounding beaches, which are no that clean...
But... we'll be able to watch Mamma Mia! The Movie... LOLOLOL
Chris.