We’re off on an extended trip again! We have about two months in Türkiye, Athens, Armenia, Tbilisi, Egypt, Malta and the Azores.
It’s a bittersweet trip for us, as Heather’s Dad, Kevin, recently passed away. He’s always been really keen on the details of our travels, with all sorts of questions about the history or the food we ate or about the uniqueness of places. Years ago, after my Mom had passed away, we had a trip through Bhutan where we raised prayer flags on a trek in honour of my Mom. I’m hoping we’ll come across some local custom on this trip where we can commemorate Kevin.
It was a bit of a jigsaw puzzle planning the trip, trying to avoid religious and cultural observances such as Lunar New Year, Tet, Ramadan, Easter, Orthodox Easter and Holi. The resulting itinerary isn’t optimized from a weather standpoint (for example it would have been better to go to Egypt before Armenia and Georgia) but it’ll still be better than the -10C that we left behind in Toronto.
There’s a lot of ruins to see on this trip: the Acropolis in Athens; Tatev Monastery in Armenia; Abu Simbel in Egypt; and Ephesus Ancient City, Ishak Pasha Palace, Ani ruins, and Sümela Monastery in Türkiye.
We’ll soon touch down in Athens to start our adventures!