Knowing how to access and explore Meteora monasteries is the first step to making the most of your visit. These extraordinary religious complexes sit atop sheer sandstone pillars rising more than 400 meters above the Thessaly plain, which means reaching them takes a little more thought than a typical sightseeing stop. The good news is … Read more
The school year ended and I sat in an empty classroom for twenty minutes just listening to the silence. Then I went home and looked up flights. Teaching summers off exist for a reason — and somehow, within an hour, I had a one-way ticket to Greece and a vague but burning need to stand … Read more
I spent fourteen months putting money into a travel fund that everyone else called frivolous. When it finally had enough zeros in it, I spent about forty-five minutes looking at destinations before I bought the ticket — because honestly, when you close your eyes and picture sun-bleached whitewashed walls tumbling down toward water so blue … Read more
