https://calderescapes.com The Calder's Global Travels Wed, 01 Feb 2023 17:07:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://calderescapes.com/wpcms/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-ce-site-icon-32x32.png https://calderescapes.com 32 32 https://calderescapes.com/posts/in-and-around-athens-greece/ Wed, 14 Dec 2022 18:30:05 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=55502 December 14th, 2022 After viewing the canal, we then took the non-toll roads and made it into Athens about 10:30 am with not too much traffic.  Doug dropped Fran at a laundromat (parking is only on the street around the place and there was no room but we had anticipated this, so that’s whey he […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/peloponnese-greece/ Tue, 06 Dec 2022 18:19:19 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=55137 December 6th, 2022 Tuesday was a wet day and Doug had planned/hoped to do a marathon walk but the rain killed that idea although he did manage his Tuesday run before it began.  Instead he did a mediation seminar that morning.  It rained most of the day but we got our Christmas letter out, our […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/greece-country-35-in-2022/ Thu, 01 Dec 2022 10:42:10 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=54902 December 1st, 2022 Currency:   Euro Beer:   Alfa Diesel:  1.84 eu per litre which is $7.25 US per gallon EU Plate letters: GR Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans. Greece shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the northeast. The Aegean Sea lies to the […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/albania/ Sun, 20 Nov 2022 12:42:49 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=54592   November 20th, 2022 Currency:   Albanian LEK – $0.0089 USD or $0.012 CDN Beer:   Tirana, Elbar & Korça Diesel:  218 LEK per litre which is $7.56 US per gallon EU Plate letters: AL Albania, officially the Republic of Albania, is a country in southeastern Europe. It is located on the Adriatic Sea and shares land borders with Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, North […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/montenegro/ Tue, 15 Nov 2022 14:03:59 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=54486 November 15th, 2022 Currency:   Euro Beer:    Niksicko Diesel:  €1.64 per litre which is $6.40 US per gallon  (the one time we filled up we got it for €1.59 = $6.29) EU Plate letters: MNE Montenegro is a country in Southeastern Europe. It is located a part of the Balkans and is bordered by Serbia to the northeast, […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/kosovo/ Sat, 12 Nov 2022 16:06:01 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=54341 November 12th , 2022 Currency:  The Euro Beer: Peja Diesel:  1.71 eu  per litre which is $6.29 US per gallon EU Plate letters: RKS Kosovo, officially the “Republic of Kosovo” (RKS) is a partially recognised state in Southeast Europe. Kosovo means “field of blackbirds” in Serbian. It lies at the centre of the Balkans. Kosovo […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/north-macedonia/ Thu, 10 Nov 2022 14:35:34 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=54220 November 10th, 2022 Currency:  The Denar (MKD) – worth $0.16 USD and $0.22 CDN Beer: Skopsko Diesel:  98.50 denar  per litre which is $6.02 US per gallon EU Plate letters: MK or NMK – we saw both North Macedonia (Macedonia before February 2019), officially the Republic of North Macedonia, is a country in Southeast Europe. It gained independence in 1991 […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/back-to-bulgaria/ Mon, 07 Nov 2022 14:15:20 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=54164 November 7th, 2022 The country info and flag were in the first Bulgarian blog we did back in September so that won’t be in this second post about Bulgaria but we will update currency rates and petrol prices. As this is a rather short post, there will be two today to get closer to being […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/farewell-to-turkiye/ Mon, 31 Oct 2022 09:56:40 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=54073 October 31st, 2022 Happy Halloween! Monday morning we drove into Izmir, (third largest city in the country) where we wanted to see a couple of sites and maybe get the missing blood work done we couldn’t do in Kayseri. We had a large parking lot in mind that took a while to get to in […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/continuing-westward-in-turkiye/ Fri, 28 Oct 2022 13:06:07 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=54057 October 28th, 2022 We hit the road on the early side today as we had a more than 200 km / 125 mi to drive to get to Pamukkale today.  But first before leaving Fethiye, we stopped to see the Rock Tombs on the hills.  There is a museum but you can see them right […]]]>