The Near-Normal Traveler

Spring flowers It’s been more than a year since the Near Normal Travelers have been out and about. We’ve been to a few restaurants near us, ...

Although our meeting was in Dubrovnik, we’d been told that one of the most beautiful places in Croatia was a little town named Split, so th...

So very early in the morning we boarded an island hopper to go from Dolphin sculpture at the harbor Athens to Rhodes. We were all sad t...

Agora A week in Athens isn’t nearly long enough to see all of the monuments, ruins, points of interest, as well as sample all of the fo...

Greek Folk Dance The best time to visit Athens is in the spring (April, May, early June) or fall (mid-September, October); so of cours...

One of the most famous places in Greece, and a tourist destination since Mountains as early as 1400 BCE, is Delphi. And being tourists,...

And I came back to Amsterdam. This is my third trip and Dave’s second. Our first visit was in the 1980s with a tour group; we saw the ‘c...