Why is Easter usually celebrated on a different date in Greece?
Did you know that Easter is celebrated in Greece on a different date to that which is marked by the Christian churches of western Europe? The short explanation for why […]
Museum of the Olive and Olive Oil, Sparti
There’s no avoiding the importance of the olive in Greece. The trees are all around you, large and small, and it seems that every family has their own source of […]
The museums at Ancient Olympia
This is for those with an interest in seeing some of the incredible finds at the site of Ancient Olympia. Not everything here relates to the Olympic Games, not by […]
Νικόπολις/Nicopolis, on the road from Ηγουμενίτσα/Igoumenitsa to Πρέβεζα/Préveza
On Wednesday 7th October, we headed off from Igoumenitsa. It sure was a good feeling to be hitting the road on our travels through Greece. We are surprised at how […]
Saul’s intro to the history of Greece
Saul’s high-level summary timeline of Ancient Greece might provide some context as we hop back and forth through centuries and millennia in our blogposts, with pictures of ancient piles of […]