Joel's Journeys & Jaunts

My understanding is that one typically goes to Agrigento primarily to visit the Valley of the Temples and the associated sights. I’m one. There is...

This morning, I took the train from Palermo to Agrigento, a city near, but not immediately beside the sea. The centre of town is a...

I mentioned yesterday that I didn’t take a planned hop-on, hop-off bus tour then because the one route that interested me, one that stops at...

Today, my first full day in Palermo, I visited a bunch of churches, a theatre, and the seaside. That was not my original plan for...

Sicily began in Palermo. Or, that is to say, it did for me. This is my first trip to Sicily and I started it in...

Today is my last full day in Greece for this trip, my first time here. I spent the day visiting Epidaurus and then driving back...

My hotel in Nafplio includes breakfast. The breakfast food, served buffet style, is nothing to write about, so I won’t. I ate breakfast on the...

Today’s drive took me to Nafplio, with a stop at Mycenae. Nafplio is my final overnight stay (2 nights) on the Peloponnese peninsula. I then...

I know that in the introduction to yesterday’s post I said it would probably be short. I failed you there. Sorry about that. But I...

Today, I drove to Gefyra, a town immediately beside the main attraction of the area, Monemvasia. I made a couple of stops along the way,...