September 2021: We barely made it to Cyprus! Paula lost her phone in the Athens airport during our connection from Santorini, but by some miracle, it was recovered by airport staff and waiting for us at the lost and found counter in the baggage area. From Athens, we...

Why Visit Sikinos IslandSeptember 2021: Sikinos Island has all of the beauty of Santarini-high sea cliffs, white walled villages but without the over-development and droves of tourists. Sikinos is a quiet island, which still has working donkeys. One of the reasons I...

The Legend of the King Minos, the Labyrinth and the MinotaurSeptember 2021: Legacy of the Minoans on Crete Origins of Europe’s First CivilizationThe Minoan civilization of Crete dates back to 3500 BC, making it the first advanced civilization in Europe. Its history is...

September 2021: North Macedonia is one of Europe's newer countries, having been part of the communist Eastern Bloc nation of Yugoslavia until the early 1990s. It wasn't until Yugoslavia collapsed with the fall of communism that North Macedonia, along with six other...

Zubr-Bison Tracking in Europe's Largest Old Growth ForestSeptember 2021: Before this trip the closest I was to visiting Poland was being stuck in a taxi-way at the Warsaw airport while drinking vodka shots and eating sausages with a group of Russians on a connecting...