Posts in Tag: Greece
-
Vergina – The Royal Tombs of Macedon
In the last post our Adventures Abroad Via Egnatia tour visited Pella, the birthplace of Alexander the Great and the principal city of the Macedonian Empire. Although the archaeological site was not much to look at, the Pella Museum was outstanding. In this post we’ll move to the nearby town of Vergina which is located […]
-
Thessaloniki – Exploring Greece’s Second City
In the second last post from the Adventures Abroad Via Egnatia tour led by esteemed guide Victor Romagnoli we visited the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Philippi where St. Paul preached and was briefly imprisoned. In this post we’ll follow St. Paul to his next stop, the ancient city of Thessaloniki. It is a place […]
-
Mount Athos – Cruising by the Monasteries
This is post #4 from the Greece portion of last spring’s Adventures Abroad Via Egnatia tour led by the Canadian who knows more about Greece than most Greeks, our friend Victor Romagnoli. In the last post we visited the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Philippi and in this one we’ll see another. When Victor and […]
-
Philippi and Kavala – Via Egnatia Continued
This is my third post from the Adventures Abroad Via Egnatia tour led by Victor Romagnoli since crossing over into Greece from Turkey. In the first of those posts we visited the border city of Alexandroupoli and in the second spent some time in the magnificent Dadia National Park. Today we will move on to […]
-
Dadia National Park
When our guide Victor Romagnoli and I were planning the Via Egnatia tour we both agreed that we wanted to include as much natural history as possible. Since we are both avid birders visiting Dadia-Lefkimi-Soufli Forest National Park or just Dadia National Park as I’ll call it in this post, was a no brainer. It […]
-
Alexandroupoli & the Turkish Border
This is my fifth post from the Adventures Abroad Via Egnatia tour led by our friend Victor Romagnoli in the late spring of 2023. The first four posts were from Turkiye including the last one from Edirne, which turned out to be a very interesting and untouristy place. As noted in the previous posts the […]
-
Via Egnatia with Adventures Abroad
Over the past five years I have written almost one hundred and fifty posts from seventeen different countries that Alison and I have journeyed to with our favourite tour operator Adventures Abroad. Many of those posts appear under the blog heading on the Adventures Abroad website. What they all have in common is that they […]