Thursday, May 28, 2015 This was the final day of our trip. After breakfast on our little balcony overlooking the caldera, we headed out. Throughout the trip Grace had been talking about taking a boat trip to the volcano in the…
Grace & Dana’s Adventure – Day 8 (Greece – Santorini)
Wednesday, May 27, 2015 After breakfast on our balcony, we walked back into Oia. Sure, there are lots of people, but there’s a breathtaking view every ten feet. The stores were adorable, but we were seriously hampered by our lack…
Grace & Dana’s Adventure – Day 7 (Greece – Athens and Santorini)
Tuesday, May 26, 2015 By now, after a week of traveling, Grace and I were pretty much in sync. We had a 4:30 p.m. flight from Athens to Santorini, and I told Grace well in advance that in order for…
Grace & Dana’s Adventure – Day 6 (Greece: Athens)
Monday, May 25, 2015 We had an appointment first thing Monday morning in Athens. Six weeks before our trip, my friend and colleague Charlotte had emailed Jim Wright, the head of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, to…
Grace & Dana’s Adventure – Day 5 (Croatia and Montenegro)
Sunday, May 24, 2015 I was up in the wee, wee hours of Sunday morning worrying. Here was the source of my anxiety: Our flight to Athens was Sunday afternoon, and I hadn’t received an email from Croatia Airlines telling me to check…
Grace & Dana’s Adventure – Day 4 (Croatia – Dubrovnik)
Saturday, May 23, 2015 Sunshine! In our original itinerary, we had been thinking of doing a day trip to Montenegro today. We nixed it, however, because the weather report said that Montenegro would be cloudy, and we couldn’t possibly leave…
Grace & Dana’s Adventure – Day 3 (Croatia: Split, the Dalmatian Coast, and Dubrovnik)
Friday, May 22, 2015 We spent the morning exploring Split. It was still raining, but that mattered less strolling through a city than it did the day before when we were at Plitvice National Park. Grace navigated our walking…
Grace & Dana’s Adventure – Day 2 (Croatia: Plitvice National Park and Split)
Thursday, May 21, 2015: While I got our bags organized, Grace went out to buy us breakfast. Even that short separation made me realize how totally dependent we are on cell phones. I’d arranged for a data plan for my…
Grace & Dana’s Adventure – Day 1 (Croatia: Zagreb)
Grace graduated from Haverford on May 17, 2015, and she and I started our post-graduation mother-daughter trip just two days later, flying out of Newark on a red-eye on May 19. After a short layover in Munich (uber-efficient airport, very…