Travel Talk Sat August 8: Greece (beyond Athens) - online, everyone welcome

FUTURE ONLINE MEETINGS: 2nd Saturdays, except as noted

November 14: let's start hearing about the trips we have taken this year and build discussions around those!
- volunteers requested to share their 2026 travels!

December 12: travel souvenirs and travel trees
- let's see what you bought from this year's travels
- show us your Christmas travel tree (if it's not up yet, maybe a photo from last year?)

I will be there! And just back from northern Greece .

Hello

Your invite says that it is going to be on Saturday August 8th. Assume that is not correct. What is the real date?

Falls again on a Saturday I work. I really need to retire.

I haven't been to Greece, but hope to make it there eventually (so many places to see, so little time to travel). I have no idea what I might be doing on in August yet, but for now please put me down as a YES. Thank you!

2025 date corrected to 2026, thanks CL for the catch on my copy and paste error from a 2025 meeting!

Your invite says that it is going to be on Saturday August 8th. Assume that is not correct. What is the real date?

indeed the second Saturday is the 8th of August.

why is the date incorrect, bostonphil7?

I'll be home from my US visit and well over jetlag by then. I look forward to reminiscing about some lovely places. I've taken the RS tour and been to Crete and Naxos.

Chani, I'll look forward to hearing about your RS Best of Greece tour.

My tour in 2025 was with OAT and included Athens, Crete, Thessaloniki and Northern Greece, with very little overlap with the Rick Steves tour. So that's still been on my list of possibilities.

Andrea, drat again. We've got to fix this!

If this is February 14, 2026, I'd like to attend.

Hi MariaF, this is actually in August. I've published the next few of our second Saturday meetings aligned with various people's travels so that we can hear their trip reports, ask questions and chat about their destinations.

Darn! I’m very interested in Greece but I seem to have a conflict every time Greece is the topic. I’ll be on the last day of my family trip to Cape Cod, so it’s unlikely I will be able to join.

hi Nigel

When I first read the notification, I believe it said August 8 2025 which has since been corrected to 2026.

However, we are in February and I just assumed that the Travel Talk was taking place sometimes in February.

Thanks for the correction. I will update the calendar, I will admit my mind doesn't compute future summer dates yet, but getting there.

I would like to join although I must admit August is not in my mind either.

I am spending 16 days in the Peloponese in May followed by a visit to Thessaloniki.

I have no idea if I'll be free that day, but the topic is of interest, so for now I'm a yes please. Thank you!

I'm interested since I plan to go to Greece.

Please include me just in case it’s raining on Cape Cod!

Please sign me up for this one. I’m taking a tour of Northern Greece, North Macedonia, and Albania in October and will be ending with a few days in Athens. I’ve been to Greece twice before but my last visit was in 1991.

Thanks!

Hope to be there!

Updated post (above) with Future Meetings.

Please sign me up for this greece meeting.

I also am interested in the Christmas markets meeting next month. Should I return to that threadand place a request to be included? Not sure.

Glad to have you join, lah!

Yes, please RSVP for each session that interests you. In the week or so leading up to each meeting, I send out the meeting invites via forum message to those who have responded to that specific meeeting announcement.

I would like to attend.

I would also like to attend the Greece meeting.

Please include me for the Greece talk. Thanks!

Please add me to your list. We will be in Greece the beginning of October - Rhodes, Santorini, Mykonos, and Athens. Except for a quick visit to Corfu in 1978, I haven’t really been to Greece.
Looking forward to everyone’s stories and advice.

I would like to join the Greece talk. Not sure if you have my info.

Please add me to this meeting. Thanks.

I will send meeting details via forum message within the next few days. Please continue to RSVP for anyone who would like to attend.

Please add me to the list. Phyllis

I have sent forum messages to everyone, above, who has expressed interest in attending the meeting. For some of you who are new to the meeting, you'll need to reply to my message and tell me a little bit about your Greece travels or travel plans. I'll reply with the meeting details.

Hello,

I've been to Greece a few times and I would definitely like to join the meeting. You should have my information from previous meetings, but if not, please let me know.

Thanks!