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

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Please join us for our regular 2nd Saturday when we will talk about travels in Greece, beyond Athens and Santorini. If you've been and have tips or if you've never been and have questions, everyone is welcome!

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A special invitation to any of the self-titled "TA Refugees" who would like to tell us a bit about your favorite destinations in Greece!
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WHEN: Saturday, Aug 8 2026 @ 10am - Noon Pacific
WHERE: online (details will be sent via pm closer to the meeting date)

Please RSVP on this thread.

New participants, please note: if you are new to this meeting, there is a security setup step which I will send to you via private message on this forum. You must complete that step and reply to my message. After I receive your reply, I will send the meeting link.

Disclaimer - the discussions at these travel meetings have been known to increase the length of travel wishlists!

Posted by
6330 posts

FUTURE ONLINE MEETINGS: 2nd Saturdays, except as noted

To be announced

Posted by
3482 posts

Hello

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

Posted by
1832 posts

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

Posted by
930 posts

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!

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6330 posts

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

Posted by
36669 posts

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?

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15978 posts

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.

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6330 posts

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.

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6330 posts

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.

Posted by
1328 posts

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.

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3482 posts

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.

Posted by
4726 posts

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

Posted by
3471 posts

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.

Posted by
930 posts

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!

Posted by
6592 posts

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!