Greece 2024 🇬🇷

🇬🇷 We thought we’d wait three years to return but we couldn’t do it. Tortuga Beach called us back to Greece. Getting to travel and hang out with friends and family was a special bonus! Labi, Jill, the girls, Aaron, Leigh, B, and Yvonne — what a crew. 💕 Our restaurant dinners for 12 were adventurous, with fantastic food every night and only mild chaos if the wasps showed up. They love souvlaki too. 

As soon as we arrived I forgot what day it was and sunk into a deep restorative relaxation. Daily swims in the warm ocean “set me up forever” (as Jane Austen put it in Pride & Prejudice). Drinking cheap Greek beers (Alpha for €2,50) and eating Oregano Lays in the afternoon, and reading a few chapters, lounging on a chaise is just dreamy. Catching up with folks is also a treat. 

Greece is foodie paradise of course: souvlaki, spanakopita, salad, perfect feta, sweet red onions and the peppers, cukes, tomatoes were exquisite. We tried something new — yemista but it’s in zucchini flower instead of veg. So good. In Athens I had a game changing dessert called chocolate mosaic! I’ve already done a preliminary Pinterest search for recipes. 

In the countryside it was sometimes quite windy and the sound of cicadas in the olive trees was loud. They’re intense. Like the waves in the distance, they swell and retreat. There are cacti and palms, mountains and valleys. The sky - light blue- meets the ocean - Med blue- and dry beige land  is speckled with green brush. There are rare pops of pink flowers. It’a a soothing colour palate. 

We returned to some special places — Plitra, Elafonisos, Monemvasia — and explored caves in Neapoli. Before leaving Greece, we visited the Acropolis, its museum, the agora, and walked around the neighborhoods in their shadows. 

It was all daxi. 🇬🇷