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In 2018 we returned to Greece. This time we stayed on the mainland, heading to the village of Gerolimenas on the Mani Peninsula of Peloponnese. We stayed in a stone warehouse built in the 1870s which had recently been converted into a small hotel. Still owned by the same family. (My Greek friend had stayed there with her sister.)
GEROLIMENAS, GREECE
We made this journey with friends from high school who hadn’t yet ventured beyond Canada, and asked if they could join us on one of our adventures. Fortunately they are hearty people, as simply finding our hotel in Athens the first night, then finding our way to Gerolimenas the next day were adventures in themselves. In part since none of us had decent mapping available on our mobile phones, with each phone gave different directions. Complicated by road signs written in Greek (duh). Which I would try to decode on the fly…