Ancient Paths: May 10-17, 2023
We did our first multi-day hike in Greece in May, 2023.
We’d done lots of long-distance hikes in the Alps and in France, but never tried out Greece before. We weren’t even planning to go to Greece that year; we thought we’d do the Via Alpina in Switzerland a second time. But then our friend George Coundoussias announced that his son Demitri would be getting married in Rethymno, Crete, and who were we to stay away? To avoid having to make two trips to Europe that summer, I decided to see if we could duplicate the same sort of self-guided hikes with luggage transfer that we so enjoy in other parts of Europe.
And of course we could! Trekking Hellas organizes lots of multi-day treks, with routes all over Greece.
Since this was our first go, we chose to begin with the motherlode of Greek prehistory, the region around Delphi and Mount Parnassus. This was Trekking Hellas’ Ancient Paths trip, which they have since renamed to the somewhat less romantic “6 Days Delphi Trail-Paths 22 & E4.”
A good time!