PowerHouseCreatives Contest - Places I Would Go - Beautiful Greece

Hello friends! With our lock-down life, many of us are feeling stir-crazy and cooped up like chickens with the foxes all around trying to break in. So it's wonderful to daydream about where we might go if we had complete freedom once again! Thanks to this week's PowerHouseCreatives contest by @zord189, we can share our dreams!

Greek Islands

I have traveled to many wonderful places in the world, and this is one I dream of returning to. I have not been to Greece since college, when I spent six months there, traveling to major cities like Athens and Thessoloniki, as well as to beautiful places like Meteora and of course the islands. I have yearned to go back ever since!

Images like this one help to give a sense of how charming and magical the coastal villages are.

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The whitewashed homes and stucco churches are so brilliant and fresh-looking. You cannot help but be swept away by their simple elegance.

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Of course I want to return to Athens, and to see the Parthenon on the Acropolis again. It is one of the most stunning pieces of architecture, and fortunately they are continually working to preserve it from completely crumbling due to the elements and polution.

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One of the most stunning places I visited when I was in Greece, and would love to visit again, is Meteora - so named because the enormous rocks upon which monasteries are built were believed to be meteorites.

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Here's an article on Meteora if you would like to read about this amazing place. A brief quote: "Studies suggest that the pinnacles were formed about 60 million years ago during the Tertiary Period. Weathering and earthquakes then shaped them into their present shape."

I also crave revisiting the tiny villages, cafes and tavernas of Greece. The Greek people are kind and hospitable, and it is so wonderful to sit at a cafe and drink a glass of retsina (resin wine) or ouzo! Opa!

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I can almost smell the aroma of roasting lamb, the peculiar and delightful aroma of the retsina and the lemon, olives and herbs that accompany every meal!

And finally, I would love to return to the island of Crete, where I once stayed with a host family on an olive farm, and helped with the harvest. Each day we would go out to the farm and climb ladders and use small hand rakes to pull the olives down onto burlap, where we would then gather it up into sacks and load it onto donkeys. I am sure I could never find the same farm again. It has been too many years. But I will always remember the delicious meals my host mother made every night, the amazing bread baked in her outdoor brick oven, and how for that short time she was my mama.

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I leave you with a humorous meme. I can't remember where I found it or who sent it to me, so unfortunately I cannot provide a source, which I suppose is common for memes. But it makes me laugh! I hope it makes you smile too.

Thank you for visiting!

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