Greece

Greece Vacation, Part 4 - Costa Navarino, Peloponnese In this post I will introduce our next stop in Peloponnese peninsula in our Greece vacation. Take a look at my previous Greece Vacation posts for the full story if you are planning to visit Athens or somewhere else in Greece. In my previous post I talked about our visit in a beautiful seaside town called Nafplio in the Peloponnese peninsula of Greece. From Nafplio we continued driving to our next destination called Costa Navarino. Driving through Peloponnese With the guidance of my GPS based Sygic Navigation app and Google Maps it was supposed to take us around 2 hours 36 minutes to reach to our destination - Supposed that is; It took us a lot longer.  During this leg of our road trip our GPS guidance wasn't very reliable. We took a few wrong turns driving through couple [...]

How to Spend a Day in Nafplio, Peloponnese In my Destination Greece: Part 1 and Part 2 I talked about our road trip in Greece I did with my wife in November of 2017. Our choices of destinations were mostly based on my research of best things to do in Greece among other reasons. The trip started from Athens with a short stop in Ancient Corinth, then we continued driving on to Nafplio (also could be written as Nafplion). We decided to visit Nafplio because I found in many travel guides it was one of the top places to visit while in Greece. It was also conveniently located for us on our trip through the Peloponnese peninsula. Nafplio has a long, interesting history, has beautiful scenery, and it used to be the capital of Greece long time ago. Because of my short vacation time and many other places we [...]