Tag: 🥾Hiking
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Day 26: Turning Cedar Into Wine
We packed our bags and headed out. As Bilbo said to Frodo: “You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” Like when Frodo left Bag End, we started with familiar terrain; in our case, breakfast at 📍Cafe Toucan. It wasn’t stellar…
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Day 24: Summiting Olympus
Turns out you don’t need to complete 12 Herculean tasks to ascend to the top of Mount Olympus. In Cyprus, you only have to drive an hour from Limassol. Literally, you can drive to the summit. Instead of gods, however, you’ll only find a radar station. The day started like every other with breakfast. We…
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Day 21: Cape Greco
We got up early today. It wasn’t so much because we had to go hiking, but because we had to get a car rental, go hiking and get back to the city and park, ideally before sunset. We started the day at 📍Tamp & Steam, a specialty coffee shop that really cares about doing a…
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Day 15: Agia Irini Gorge
We started our day very early… well… what passes for very early on vacation: 8:30 in the morning. It’s not the zero-dark stupid of some business trips, but early nonetheless. Our first stop was breakfast at 📍Drops. They did coffee correctly- not trained-barista correct, more like I know how to operate an espresso machine without…
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Day 12: Gorge of the Dead
The day started with breakfast at 📍Kalimera (Greek for good morning). It started well with prompt service and decent food. We were even upsold a bread basket. The end of the meal is where things soured. Our server first got into sexism territory by first commenting that Karine was paying and not me… the manfolk.…
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Day 4: Hiking the Eros Loop
We’ve been in Greece for two nights and have averaged 10 hours of sleep per night. It shows we were due for a rest. Breakfast is at 📍The Lemon Tree; it’s the only location that I could find that served specialty coffee on the island. We ordered yogourt with fruits. Every restaurant seems to insist…
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Day 26: Path of the Rain Gods
We got up early (for us). 9:00 is really not a time that should exist while on vacation. We grabbed a shower, prepped our bag and headed out… in the rain. We still walked to breakfast and consulted the weather gods. It’s fitting as we’re heading to the path of the gods. The weather god…
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Day 23: Monte Epomeo
Well… on Ischia, buses are a mess. Google and the local bus app told us to take the 197. One slight, almost imperceptible, problem: there’s no bus with that number on the entire island. We know; we waited half an hour for it. After looking at the posted timetable next to the nonfunctional ticket machines…
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Day 18: Cinque Terre
Monterosso al Mare is the traditional starting point for the 📍Cinque Terre hiking trail. The path connects five villages (📍Monterosso, 📍Vernazza, 📍Corniglia, 📍Manarola, and 📍Riomaggiore) along the coast. It’s gorgeous; the trail is well cared for and offers the opportunity to walk through the terraced vineyards built along the cliffs overlooking the Mediterranean. It has…
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Day 8: Walking Port to Port
We needed to move our bodies today, so we planned a hike. Nothing too hard: 6km with less than 300m of elevation gain. We now have our morning in Como settled. Get up a little past 10:00, shower and prep for the hike, head to Mr. Panino for our panini breakfast, and then hop on…
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