Getting Real: My Restlessness, Reflecting on Athens AND GOING TO AUSTRALIA!!!

It's October again. One of my favorite months to welcome in my favorite season of the year. And despite the lack of pumpkin patches here in Athens, which the inner kid in me is quietly grieving, I'm bringing this glorified pumpkin season in with a pumpkin spiced latte at Starbucks. Though I rarely come here anymore,…

Experiencing Ancient Athens: The Herodeon Theatre

After a summer spent in Crete and a good couple months visiting family in the States... I'm back in my adopted hometown. And honestly, it's been a bit of a humdrum winding down from all the previous activity while waiting on news for our next big move (more on that later). So when Alex's mom…

Glacier Lakes, Evergreen Trails and Grizzly Bears… “O’ CANADA”!

One thing that never fails to intrigue me about travel is, just when you think you've found the "most beautiful place you've ever been"... You discover Canada. I never thought of Canada to be my next destination. The way I pictured it, it was a vast, empty, terrain, where bears outnumbered people, and scattered mountain…

For the Romantics

Though it's not known for its sensational night life and those famous beaches are at least an hour drive away, if you're in love and want to be somewhere that embraces the romantic things of life, one thing is for sure about this West Coastal, Cretan village... Rethymno is for lovers. The ambiance of the…

One Night in Rethymno

As instinctive night owls... we prefer to spend our time out during the cooler, breezier August evenings (when compared to the smoldering heat of midday, at least). So naturally, we know exactly where to suggest for your summer nights here in Rethymno. Right before Sunset Since you'll probably be on the beach anyways... we'll start…

One Day in Rethymno

Now if you're asking me... This is what I've gathered over my last month and a half here in this Venetian/ Turkish infused, historically sanctified, Cretan village; where the Renaissance took refuge and never seemed to have left. Though it has been overexposed to the unavoidable touristic contagion that eventually gets to all the world's…

Transitions, Unemployment and Crete.

There’s been an annoying inconsistency to my posts lately. I know. And though this may sound like a cliche follow up excuse… to be truthful, this season of Alex and I’s life has been a bit of an inconsistency in general. Transitions, life-plan making, the consistent unplanned changes thereafter, with everything; work, where we’re going…

A Step North from Athens

Since I've moved here to Greece, I've always heard Thessaloniki to be a "cleaner, smaller and more beautiful Athens". There it is said that the women are the most beautiful; wearing their best clothes even when going out for a simple coffee with their παρέα/parea (group of friends). The people are said to be even more easy…

Some Days… You Hate It.

Its been eight months, as of a few days ago, since I bought my ticket to Athens. I remember it was such a high clicking the "one-way" option on the airline site. My life had taken a hard spring cleaning with the only things I owned and would ever hold familiar again, were two suitcases and a…

A Greek Easter

In Greece, Easter is a huge tradition celebrated by those who cross themselves every time they pass a church and those who haven't passed a church in well... ever. In a country where traditions run deep it's definitely one of the traditions that run the strongest. Though the beliefs of an Orthodox Easter and an Easter…