Ourania's Adventure

Hello Everyone!



Hope all is well. I just got back from Greece and thought I’d share some of my pictures with you (I took nearly 500 shots but won’t subject you to all of them).



All in all, the trip was great! I got to spend time in Corfu with my father and plunged into the beach daily. I’ve gotta tell you, there’s nothing like the beaches in Greece. The water is crystal clear. To get a better idea of what I mean, pour yourself a glass of water. Look into it. Now that’s what you see when you are standing in the sea up to your neck. It’s amazing! Best of all, for all you weak swimmers out there – you can swim without being swept away by massive waves such as the ones that attack you here on the Atlantic Ocean.



After Corfu, I hopped on a plane and headed to Thessaloniki (AKA Salonika). I spent the day there alone, in a beautiful luxury hotel with a room facing the water. What a place! The shopping is unbelievable! It’s the second largest city in Greece and my first time there. Very different from Athens in that it’s slightly more compact and as I said, shopping everywhere. I loved it.



From there I took a bus to Kastoria to visit my cousin. This is a town that was built around a large lake. The name of the city comes from the Greek word for beaver. Not far from the lake is a river that at one time was home to tons of beavers. But of course the city became the fur capital of Europe and now there are no beavers left.



From there I went to Larissa, another large city on the mainland not far from Mt. Olympus. This is the breadbasket of Greece. There are plains as far as the eye can see, growing the majority of the crops in the country. Here I did some more shopping, ate some fabulous food and visited with Andreas’ parents.



Finally off to Athens, by train. I had a crazy and wonderful time with another cousin of mine here (I think I have more cousins than anyone else I know, honest.). What did I do here, MORE SHOPPING! I don’t generally like to shop but when you find things as fabulous as I did in Greece you just have to suffer through it. The best part is the way they live, you wake up go to work, have lunch (around 2pm), then nap. Some people go back to work at 6pm for another 3 hours while others leisurely plan their evening. I was on the leisurely side of things. After dinner (around 10pm) we met up with friends at one of their homes and figured out where we were going for the evening. You see in Greece, you don’t step foot into a bar or club before midnight – it’s just not done. Of course, if you don’t start your evening until midnight, you’re not getting home before 3 or 4 am. Then the whole cycle starts again! I loved it.



Anyway, that’s it for my trip to Greece. Hope you enjoyed the story of my summer adventure.



All the best,

Ourania