The Vagabond Adventure Daily Journal
Where Are We Now?
Good to see you! Hope you’re enjoying the journey!
This journal provides you snapshots of our journey as we work our way around the world, never traveling by jet. It’s a chance to get a close-up view of the planet as we explore it the way people did 120 years ago.
Days 702 - 706 - Heraklion, Crete
For the price of a few dollars you can walk right into the Palace of Knossos and be gotslopped, because you are walking through an example of one of the most advanced civilizations of antiquity. A gargantuan palace built by the Minoan people with remarkably advanced culture, science and technology. 4000 years ago they had flush toilets. And they basically were the foundation of the great Greek city-states like Athens, Corinth and Sparta that emerged later on the mainland of Greece. That palace was just one of the many spots that made leaving so tough.
Day 689 - Tirana, Albania to Corfu/Kerkyra, Greece
We would spend the next four nights in our charming hotel in Corfu, the Cavalier. But getting there wasn't easy. We piled off the ferry we found in Sarandë. It was growing dark as we crossed from the mainland to the ancient island where the ancient Greeks had fought one of the largest naval battles in history thousands of years ago. We thought we'd surely find a taxi to take us to our hotel, but in that we were wrong!