Tag: greece

Rhodes is an island within spitting distance of Turkey. It has been a strategic location since forever because it is the crossroads between Asia, Africa, and Europe. I mainly wanted to go to it because of its more recent history, from the 13th century to the 15th. As crusaders would do their crusading, they would…

I joined up with some family members for my visit to Athens. This was my first time to Greece before and I was excited to see the origins of so much of western civilization. I spent several days in Athens, then took a ferry to the Cyclades Islands, visiting Mykonos, Delos, and Naxos.  Athens I…