Greece Vacation, Part 4 – Costa Navarino, Peloponnese – The Westin Resort

By |2018-03-04T19:52:19+08:00March 4th, 2018|Cities, Countries, Hotels, Travel|

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 [...]

Greece Vacation, Part 3 – Nafplio – Seaport Town in Peloponnese

By |2018-02-15T14:08:00+08:00February 10th, 2018|Cities, Countries, Hotels, Travel|

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 [...]

Greece Vacation, Part 2 – Ancient Corinth

By |2018-02-12T21:51:34+08:00January 22nd, 2018|Cities, Countries, Travel|

In my Destination Greece Part 1 post I talked about our visit in Athens. I was in Greece on a vacation with my wife, and first we spent three nights in Athens. From there we rented a car and went for a road trip. The car rental was effortless. There was a Sixt car rental office at the Hilton Athens hotel, which made the drop off at the end of the rental period convenient because that's the hotel where we spent our last night in Greece. I booked a small Toyota car but I got a free upgrade to a BMW X1. Such a smooth ride! This was only my second time renting from Sixt but I have a good status with the company as I explained in my post Pilot's Guide to Hotel Benefits. With the wheels under us we were ready for a road trip! [...]

Greece Vacation, Part 1 – Top Ten Places to Visit in Athens

By |2018-02-15T14:19:03+08:00January 15th, 2018|Cities, Countries, Travel|

I travel a lot for my work but the best trips still are the vacation trips that I have with my wife. That is when we are free to do what we want without worrying about possible schedule change. Why Greece? Our recent leisure trip was in Greece . We chose to visit Greece because it is essentially the birth place of western civilization with thousands of years of history. Although I had visited Athens once before as a kid I wanted to visit there again at an older age now that I can better appreciate different cultures. Also Greece was a convenient location to visit from Dubai where I happened to be training just before my vacation. My last day of training was October 29th and we flew to Athens on 30th. I made a travel plan before our trip and found out this was really not the [...]

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