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Rebuilding Our Van in Greece

By on September 26, 2017

Hey everyone! We’ve been pretty busy with rebuilding our van, so we haven’t kept up on our blog posts. We have been doing a lot of videos, though, so…

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Come With Us: Greece

By on July 29, 2016

From Dec 18, 2012 to Feb 14, 2013:
165 days of #vanlife
We kind of celebrated, pork-wise, after leaving Turkey. There were many moments in Greece that were memorable: having to get…

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Meteora: A Perfect Blend of Natural and Man-Made Masterpieces

By on December 20, 2013

In our ignorance, we could have easily missed the one place in Greece that captured me completely: Meteora.
We hadn’t heard of it, had no idea that it was featured…

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Athens Is Worth It- But Not What We Expected

By on January 25, 2013

We’ve had an interesting* time of it in Athens, so far. Not the best, the worst but perhaps a lot of quirky and curious in-betweens. We started our Athens…

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Home of the Greek Gods, Twist My Arm

By on January 13, 2013

The past few days travelling from Thessaloniki have been full of ssshhh…ness. And we’ve been overjoyed. I don’t know who’s happier, Armando with his Alp history or me with…

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Our First Snow of the Year: Travel In Greece

By on January 9, 2013

Back on the road. After 2 weeks in Thessaloniki we finally moved and put Mork back on his wheels. We’re heading towards Athens, but not so fast, a slow…

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No Honor Even Among Petty Thieves?

By on January 6, 2013

It’s been an odd, if interesting few days.  Involving something called ‘Tourist Police,’ Nigerians and a thwarted thief with a twisted sense of humor. Not all together, mind.
The hostel/hotel…

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Auld Lang Syne in Ancient Greece

By on January 3, 2013

It was almost omen-esque of me to mention ‘togas’ in the last post, because we rang in the New Year’s with Armando’s version. Before I get into that, I’ll…

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Greek-Friendly History 101

By on December 26, 2012

To be honest, when I think about the term ‘Greek History,’ I have a hard time getting John Belushi out of my head screaming ‘Toga! Toga! Toga!’

So, being in…

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A Warm Greek Welcome, Don’t Hold the Pork

By on December 20, 2012

It’s been a refreshing change, coming to Greece. Our first ‘culture shock’ was the amount of English spoken/understood/used.
We decided on Alexandroupolis as our first port of parking, and after…

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Unaccustomed to Us Officers: The Turkish-Greek Border Crossing

By on December 19, 2012

We should have seen it coming, really. I mean, we’d stayed in Turkey for over 2 months. An Italian and an American traveling in a German van with Bulgarian…