Category Archive: Greece Travel
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Dodecanese Cruise Diary 2017 - A Cove on Kalymnos “Cruising the Dodecanese” is Peter Sommer Travels’ last scheduled cruise in Greece in 2017. This year, to give an impression of the experience, we are providing a diary of sorts ... Read More
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Samos in Greece: its key archaeological sites Today, during our Cruising the Dodecanese trip, we explored the ancient history and key archaeological of the great island of Samos in the Dodecanese in Greece. This island was one ... Read More
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Exploring Crete 2017 Diary – Day 12: Minoan jewellery in the Archaeological Museum at Heraklion "Exploring Crete" is Peter Sommer Travels' first scheduled tour in 2017. This year, to give an impression of the experience, we are providing a diary of sorts on our blog. ... Read More
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Rethymno and its Venetian fortress, the Fortezza Today was another foray into diverse histories. In the morning, we made our way into the foothills of Crete's mountainous spine, to the site of Eleutherna (or Eleftherna), an important ... Read More
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Roast Lamb in a Mountain Village on Crete It's only a picture, so you have to use your imagination to match our experience today: slabs of lamb roasting over an open fire, their scent mingling with that of ... Read More
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Exploring Crete 2017 Diary – Day 4: A Face in Siteia “Exploring Crete” is Peter Sommer Travels’ first scheduled tour in 2017. This year, to give an impression of the experience, we are providing a diary of sorts on our blog. ... Read More
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The Trapeza Cave on Crete in Greece This is a view inside the little-visited Cave of Trapeza (Tzermiadho in Greek), on the edge of the stupendous Lasithi Plateau, facing towards the exit - which is the source ... Read More
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Amorgos Chora, a Cycladic island's "capital village" A few weeks ago, I showed my guests on "Cruising to the Cyclades" around Amorgos Chora, one of the most beautiful traditional settlements in the Cyclades. I do so every ... Read More
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Caretta caretta – on the joy of meeting loggerhead sea turtles Sometimes, there is little to say and much to communicate. That may not work well for a blog that is usually concerned with matters of history, archaeology and art, with ... Read More
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UNESCO World Heritage on our Tours and Cruises in Greece In our last post, we celebrated the recent addition of ancient Ephesus to the UNESCO World Heritage List by describing the various sites of such distinction that we visit on ... Read More
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The Castle of Panteli on Leros: walls, vistas and worship A series of crumbling medieval walls, perched high above a deep blue sea, overlooking a fascinating scenery of coves and bays, a dense jumble of ornate mansions and distant shores ... Read More
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The Kasta Tumulus at Amphipolis in Macedonian Greece Much has been reported both in Greece and internationally about the archaeological excavations at the Kasta Tumulus near Amphipolis, at the eastern edge of the region of Central Macedonia in ... Read More
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Messene: an ancient city in the Peloponnese, Greece Ancient Messene in the southwestern Peloponnese, the southern peninsula of the Greek Mainland, has in the last two decades become one of the most spectacular among the country's many great ... Read More
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Life and Death in Ancient Athens - The Kerameikos A striking 2400-year-old marble relief, showing a mounted warrior defeating an enemy, towers over an ancient roadway. It stands upon a massive terrace that contains the graves of the soldier's ... Read More
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The most unusual harbour town in Greece: Lakki on Leros I started writing this post last week, on a gulet moored in the Bay of Lakki on Leros, one of the finest natural harbours in the Eastern Mediterranean and one ... Read More