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New place! Chania (Western Crete)
We enjoyed our time in Elounda and eastern Crete very much (even if the hotel was a little questionable) and were excited to see more of the island. We drove ~3 hours to Chania in the west of Crete which is a biggish town (~120k people) that comes highly recommended. We are staying in what…
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A tribute to Greek food
It so, so, so good. The kids love it, we love it. It’s healthy, it’s tasty, there is a wide variety of options and usually the restaurant is super fun – they take great pride in presenting the food. So fresh and you feel good after you eat it. We are not sure why this…
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New place! Crete, (eastern side)
When it comes to Grecian islands, there are many to choose from – according to Google, there are 6 major groups with over 6000 islands, 227 of which are populated. As is her way, Jen has researched all of them. As a result, we headed to the large island of Crete and plan to spend…
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Athens is surprisingly great
We had read generally negative things about Athens. Most travel guides suggest spending no more than a day or two here to see the Acropolis and Agora and then get out to the islands. We had read that the city is dirty and covered in graffiti and generally not a nice place to be. After…
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New place! Athens, Greece May 10th
We are excited to go to Greece! We’ve never been before and it seems a bit intimidating with all of the different islands and logistics, but Jen has done lots of research and we are ready for it. Few days in Athens and then off to island vacation in Crete and then we’ll see. We’re…
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Taking a pause in Barcelona
The last few days in Barcelona were great. Very nice to stay in one place a little longer and have the chance to recover from all the hopping around. In the last few days we: Basically we did a lot of normal life stuff and it was really nice. As we spent more time there,…
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New place! Barcelona 5/4
After a few great days in Gerona, we took the train the rest of the way to Barcelona. Jen and I have both been to Barcelona briefly in the past (not together) and generally have positive memories. We’re interested to explore further. Also, it will be nice to be in a big city again after…
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A few days in Girona, Catalonia, Spain
After 5 days in France, we were VERY excited to be headed back to Spain. We stayed our last night in Arles and the plan was to take a train to Narbonne and then switch trains to Gerona – a roughly 3 hour trip. It poured rain the night before we left (leaking into our…
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New place! Girona, Spain 5/2
France was weird… will post more thoughts on it, but Provence felt sort of sad and half dead. Not sure what the deal was, but was not enjoyable. Because of it being so weird, our hotel had seemingly never been asked to call a taxi before and was completely unable to assist, uber didn’t work…
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New Place! Marseille, France 4/29
After a coupe of pleasant days in Nice, we headed further west on our slow path towards Barcelona. We’ve read very mixed things about Marseille… it’s apparently the second largest city in France (~1.5M people) and people describe it as gritty and not entirely safe. Some people seem to love it, but many suggest avoiding…
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