Our summer trip, as I said before, will be to Greece: a number of days on our own in Crete, followed by another Rick Steves tour, followed by a couple of days in Switzerland on our way home. Greece has apparently become our every-ten-years tradition. We went there on our honeymoon in 1998 and again in 2008. Now in 2018 we will spend a substantial amount of time on the mainland, instead of, as in the past, spending almost all of our time in the islands. We've never before been to Crete, or to Delphi, and our only experience in the Peloponnese was a four-hour bus ride from the ferry docks at Patras to Athens. In 2008, we did take the train up to Kalambaka, to spend a day at the sky-monasteries of Meteora, but we went right back to Athens after that, then took an overnight ferry out to the Dodecanese (Rhodes and Symi). We've considered visiting Mary Joy's grandfather's home town of Politika, on the island of Evia (he left there in 1910 as Konstantinos Grammatikos and ended up as a restaurateur named Gus Graham, in Kenosha, Wisconsin), but that didn't work out for this trip. Maybe in 2028!
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