In this video, I tell my personal story about the Camino, how it took me 3 years to complete it and my thoughts after arriving in Santiago.
Category: Videos in English
In this video, we review the Spanish TV Series 3 Caminos of 2021, analyzing the plot and the storytelling and if it portrays the Camino experience accurately.
Spoiler Alert: It is not great.
In this video, we explore the different walls that the city of Athens, Greece, has had throughout history and many of its remains, mostly hidden in abandoned buildings and grounds, such as the wall of Themistocles, the wall of Valerius, the wall of Diateichisma, the wall of Proteichisma, the wall of Rizokastro, the wall of Hipapantis and the wall of Serpentza.
Audioguías:
Large walls of Athens (Inglés): https://ko-fi.com/s/1ee8f139a1
Small walls of Athens (Inglés): https://ko-fi.com/s/80a3af5b1d
Long Walls or Makra Teixi (English): https://ko-fi.com/s/30e6b7b3ea
The Philopappos Park is in the minds of tourists and Athenians a great place to admire the Parthenon, the Agora and the rest of Athens. However, the 3 hills that make it up, beyond the excellent views, are very full of interesting sites, such as caves, sanctuaries, walls, monuments, tombs, cisterns and many many ruins, if you know exactly where to look.
In this video, we are going to explore many of these remains, in addition to telling details of the history of Athens and of Greece.
Philopappos Audio Guide: https://ko-fi.com/s/3c3440dfff
In recent years, the trend of painting large murals as a way to beautify cities has become popular, and Athens has embraced this trend wholeheartedly.
Many tourists enjoy this open-air gallery; however, no organization had yet created a map documenting the locations of these works, which is what we have done.
This map includes murals by renowned Greek artists, as well as international artists such as INO, Soteur, Same84, Nikolaos Tsounakas, Aristeidis Lappas, Leonidas Giannakopulos, Robert Vargas, Alex Martinez, Billy Gee, Tristan Eaton, STMTS, Ruin, Cacao Rocks, Taxis, Paparazzi Art Studio, Mister Achilles, Eleni Psyllaki, Kes, Dreyk the Pirate, BirdCap, Kyle Holbrook, MiteArt, Chionis George, Platon, The krah, 101 Crew, Sotiris Fen, Koustenas, Lalas, Frank25, Barbadee, Onebran, Aleks, and more.
To access this collection of points of interest, you need a map app that doesn’t require an internet connection.
We recommend OrganicMaps because it’s lightweight, fast, open source (it doesn’t spy on you), and supports large files.
Map of Athens murals: https://ko-fi.com/s/f27fb71254
For more audio guides and maps of Athens (some FREE): https://ko-fi.com/aventurasapie/shop
We walk the second day of a potential maritime variant of the Saint Andrew’s Path, walking the 17kms between Piraeus and Megara, crossing the island of Salamis on foot.
We also visited the remains of Ancient Salamis and the monastery of the Dormition of the Virgin, to take a second ferry and join the main route in the Megara wetland.
If you want to help us face the costs of the experience, we have an account on ko-fi, where we accept donations: ko-fi.com/aventurasapie
This video presents a possible two-day maritime variant, where instead of following the sacred path to Eleusis and then to Megara along the coast, you go in the direction of Piraeus to reach Megara via Salamina.
Additionally, we cover the first stage, Athens-Piraeus, which is only 10km long, visiting the ruins of the Long Walls, an ancient defensive fortification built by order of General Themistocles in the 5th century BC, to repel a Persian invasion.
If you want to help us face the costs of the experience, we have an account on ko-fi, where we accept donations: ko-fi.com/aventurasapie
We walk the fourth day of the potential Way of St. Andrew, walking the 15kms between Agioi Theodori and Istmia, following in part the tracks of the old narrow-gauge train.
The day consists of walking by beaches and alongside industrial polygons, making it the least interesting of all the stages so far.
The good thing about the stage is the end, where we arrive at the Corinth Canal, one of the longest civil engineering works in history, completed 1800 years after its start.
Furthermore this area is very rich in historical heritage, as it has the archaeological site of Istmia and the Byzantine wall of Examilia.
If you want to help us face the costs of the experience, we have an account on ko-fi, where we accept donations: ko-fi.com/aventurasapie
We travel the third day of the potential Camino de San Andres, traveling the 23kms between Megara and Agioi Theodori, partly following the tracks of the old narrow-gauge train.
We pass by a monumental tomb from the third century BC, known as the tomb of King Kar, in addition to multiple German bunkers from World War II. The landscapes of this stage are beautiful and if you do it in spring, summer and autumn, you can enjoy excellent beaches.
If you want to help us cover the costs of the experience, we have a ko-fi account, where we accept donations: ko-fi.com/aventurasapie
We walk the second day of the potential San Andres Path, walking the 26kms between Eleusis and Megara, following in part the tracks of the old narrow-gauge train.
We pass in front of the MS Mediterranean Sky, through the towns of Loutropirgos, Neraki, Nea Peramos and Pachi, as well as the Megara wetland, which is a bird refuge where you can see storks and flamingos.
If you want to help us face the costs of the experience, we have an account on ko-fi, where we accept donations: ko-fi.com/aventurasapie