Greece has been on my list of Ideal Vacations for as long as I can remember. As a kid I was obsessed with Greek mythology and would read books and books on the subject. My favourite story was (and still is) that of Persephone. Going to Athens and seeing the statues and visiting the Acropolis Museum and seeing the place these stories came from would be a dream.
And then as I got older, the movie The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants came out and one of the main characters visits her family in Greece. Those parts of the movie are filmed in Santorini, one of the many Greek islands and is breathtaking. From there I became enamored with the idea of something they call "Island Hopping" in Greece where you spend a couple of days here and there on some of the islands (not all, that would take forever!). There are boat tours and cruises to take you to the different islands. Right now the islands I would love to see are Santorini, Mykonos, Corfu, and Naxos.
Finally, a much more frivolous reason for wanting to go to Greece is the food and hospitality. I had a good friend who was Greek and we'd go to her grandmother's house every weekend and they treated me like part of their extremely large family (it was hard to move around in the house there were so many people!) and she made Greek food by hand, enough to feed a hundred people. I'd like to go to their country and experience that again.
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