Andrea Hearts Traveling: Greece

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Well, I think both my mom and I agree that Delphi was a total snooze!!! haha OR we are both not into rocks that hundreds of years ago used to be something!

Mid morning the following day we left Kato Gatzea and drove to Meteora. The drive was just wonderful although we got some rain. Driving through green mountains and looking at yellow wild flower fields all over was awesome; both my mom and I were delighted by the views.

My favorite view was the 5km before getting to our hotel when we could see Meteora from the highway and below it Kalampaka, our final destination for the day.

We left the touristy island and decided to go back to the main land and explore the other beauties that Greece had to offer. My first plan was to drive to Thessaloniki but the more I thought about it the lazier I got about having to drive 6-7 hours all the way there so decided to google something in between to stop kind of on our way to Meteora.

I found the city of Volos but couldn’t really find any decent hotels so I decided to stay 20km away from Volos in the cute little town of Kato Gatzea.

We picked up our rental car after spending one night in Athens and witnessing the festivities of Good Friday. There were processions all over town and they passed right in front of our hotel!

Our next destination was Santorini, only two hours away from Naxos in ferry!!!

When we arrived our hotel pick up service was already waiting for us and it was then when we figure out that Santorini was very very different than Naxos. In Naxos as we got off the boat we could walk straight into the town but in Santorini we had to go up a very very very windy street and then drive for 10 minutes to the town of Thira (Fira in English.)

While planning the trip I had to chose where to go, where to stay, how long to stay, and how to get there so after much research and asking my good friends for advise I decided to go to Naxos, the biggest island of the Cyclades, and then to Santorini. We stayed 3 nights in each island which was just perfect.

I made it to Athens and met with my mom!!!

She flew all the way from El Salvador and had quite the connections (El Salvador- Honduras- Miami- Zurich- Athens!) and 30+ hours travel journey door to door.

I arrived a day earlier than her just to make sure I would be in Athens before she did and I could pick her up from the airport.

zZzZz... Delphi

Meteora

Kato Gatzea

Santorini

First Greek Island... Naxos

Athens

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