Saturday October 5, 2024 Fun Facts Legend has it Zeus was born in Crete. His mother, the Goddess Rhea, hid him away there to protect...

Friday October 4, 2024 Ancient Public Toilets! Fun facts about the Mediterranean Sea (these are sort of science-y...hopefully still fun):...

Thursday October 3, 2024 We're back! We enjoyed a relaxing day yesterday with no timelines (except when waiting for our laundry to be...

Tuesday October 1, 2024 View from the Acropolis Fun Facts about Athens With 148 theatrical stages, the city of Athens has the most stages...

September 30, 2024 What Are These 2 large pottery pieces? (answers below) Fun Facts About Crete: An olive tree in Crete is possibly...

Sunday September 29, 2024 This is the point of land in Rhodes that marks where the Aegean and Mediterranean Sea meet. Fun Facts About...

Saturday September 28, 2024 Kusadasi, Turkey Fun Facts About Turkey Oil wrestling is one of Turkey's national sports. It is one of the...

Friday September 27 Fun Facts About Turkey Tulips come from Amsterdam, right? Wrong. These pretty bulb-shaped blooms were introduced to...

Starting in Istanbul September 26. 2024 Fun Facts - Istanbul: Istanbul has seven hills, just like Rome, except that each of Istanbul's...

Saturday August 3, 2024 Olympic Trivia On its journey from Greece to the host country, the torch has flown in planes, traveled under...

Thursday August 1, 2024 Olympic Trivia The Olympic Motto is Faster, Higher, Stronger - Together. Six athletes have medaled in both the...

Wednesday July 31, 2024 Update on Azja Czajkowski - Remember Azja? We told you about how we went to watch her in the Women's Pairs...

Tuesday July 30, 2024 The winning "Try" by Alex Sedrick. Olympic Trivia Tarzan competed in the Olympics! Johnny Weissmuller, the actor...

Monday July 29, 2024 Olympic Trivia The first Olympic games were held in 776 BC and took 6 months to complete The original sports were...

Sunday July 28, 2024 We finally made it to Paris on Saturday after an unexpected delay getting there from Porto, Portugal. Our first...

Thursday July 25, 2024 Images from Porto We walked across the Ponte de Dom Luis I bridge to the city of Porto and visited some landmarks...

Tuesday July 23, 2024 Animals are part of every village, and seem to have freedom to roam around. Today we saw these cute little kittens...

Sunday and Monday July 21 and 22, 2024 Sunday we took a trip to Castelo Rodrigo in the hills above the Douro river in Portugal. And...

Saturday July 20, 2024 Quick note - If you were interested in the story of the bats in the library that was in yesterday's blog, I posted...

Friday, July 19, 2024 To start today's blog, here is a beautiful picture Karen took yesterday evening in Lisbon. One of the charming...