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Poros and Troezen (AKA Troizinia) Greece May 2026

Posted by (California) on

Hello:
After the RS Best of Turkey tour my husband and I (fit and active in our late 60s and late 70s) are headed to Greece, first stop Samos, then to Poros and Troezen. Transportation and lodging already arranged.

This trip to Greece is to visit my grandparents' villages. We are not renting a car, will be hiring drivers/ taking busses and taxis. We will be staying 5 nights in Poros, sightseeing there, and traveling to Troezen for day trips, which is where my grandmother is from.

If you have recently been in Poros and have some suggestions for Not To Be Missed places please respond. Great eateries? Busses easy to use?

Troezen is a small village. My grandmother's father was the priest there in the late 1800s to early 1900s. I plan to visit the church and village. If you have been there and have any suggestions I'd like to hear them.

I see there are wineries near Troezen - have you been there? Other things to see in the area?

Thank you

Posted by
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You probably will not hear from people on this forum who have been to that small village ... unless it is a lunch stop on a main road to some tourism highlight. That's the situation for most Greek-Americans or Greek-Canadians, because most of their emigre forebears were from mountainous areas or distant islands. I do remember meeting one happy Greek-American family at the Nafplio town beach in the Argolid ... the little boy swimming next to me said, we are really lucky that my mom's grandad came from this town!

I see that your visit to familly origins also comes at the END of your Holiday... very wise move. On this & other forums, I've read about first-timers to Greece who made the ancestral village their first stop, a remote place high up inland. The relatives there gave them a rousing welcome -- and made leaving very difficult. Each attempt to go was met with new social events and persuasion -- and they never got to a single island! Their advice was to schedule that visit for the last few days -- when the rationale for leaving was a nonrefundable plane ticket.

Posted by
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Thank you for taking the time to reply. One can always hope! I know if I were on Facebook or other social media I could probably find someone from that village but I’m not on Facebook by choice.

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