Greece & Puglia (Southern), Italy

Our Greek islands and mainland route. 

Our route around Puglia, Italy.  

All my stuff ready to be packed.  

Europe 2023 Adventure – Greece & Southern Italy

Greece & Southern Italy (Puglia)

We are planning another bicycle adventure this Fall to Greece & Southern Italy. 

We have also decided in order to help with reduction of poverty and global warming, we would again donate a bicycle for each 400 Miles of riding we do on this trip, through World Bicycle Relief.  Each bicycle given by World Bicycle Relief fund costs $165. We are expecting to ride over 1,000 miles and plan to donate three bicycles.  If you would also like to help with this worthwhile cause by donating, please take a look at their website:

https://worldbicyclerelief.org/

Our plan is to start in western Greece just west of Athens' airport.  Then ride to Port of Rafina, take ferries to Islands of Mykonos, Naxos, Santorini, and Crete.  Staying a few days on each and riding on some days.  In Crete we will start in the Port of Heraklion, then stay a couple of nights in each of the main towns and ride all the way west to the western end of Crete and then take a ferry back to the mainland and travel west to the Port of Patra.  In Patra we will take an overnight ferry to Puglia in southern Italy and the Port of Bari. 

In Puglia we will do a loop around southern heel of Italy, and end in the town of Taranto.  From there we are planning to take trains to Rome and stay in Rome for a few nights before flying back home. 

We will try to keep up this blog as we go along this trip and would be happy to stay in touch with those of you interested.  Wishing you all the best.  Please sign up if you are interested.  To sign-up you will have to be in the Web version and hit the "Follow" button on top under the Blog Title.  Thank you.  

Here is our itinerary: