One year ago this week...
we left on our amazing adventure On Aphrodite's Path. The trip turned out to be a magical family event which we will never forget, one of those special periods of time in your life which defines a part of you. We stayed in amazing dream-like settings, spent time with great friends, and of course re-connected and hung out with our beautiful family living in or visiting the heart of the Meditteranean.
Since we've returned, a day doesn't go by without thinking and talking of these magical times. Happy anniversary Aphrodite's Path. Bring on the next one!
Here are a selection of some of the 'best of' photos.
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| Wellington airport ready to go and VERY excited |
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| Jurong Bird Park, Singapore |
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| Raffles |
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| Little India, Singapore |
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| Pano Sto Kyma with host Maria, Agios Isidoros, Lesvos, Greece |
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| Ella on Agios Isidoros beach |
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| Agios Isidoros hills |
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| Yiayia and Jay |
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| At Pano Sto Kyma with Tetsa and Yianni Geragotelis |
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| Luca and Ella, Agios Isidoros |
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| John's father's village - Plomari, Lesvos |
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| At Kiki's with Aunty Mercini |
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| At Pano Sto Kyma |
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| Plomari |
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| Papou enjoying showing us around his family island |
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| Agios Isidoros hills |
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| Luca |
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| John's parents house in Agios Isidoros |
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| Plomari |
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| Pano Sto Kyma view |
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| Village Akrasi, Lesvos village square |
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| Dimitri Zadelli at taverna Mouria |
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| At taverna Mouria |
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| Village Megalochori, Lesvos |
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| Father's day at Michlin Villa, Eresos, Lesvos |
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| On way back from Eresos village |
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| Yiayia's yemista - in the running for best meal of trip |
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| At Monastery Pythariou |
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| At Monastery Pythariou |
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| Monastery Pythariou |
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| Luca's scorpion |
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| Luca's snake |
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| Octopus, Scala Eresos |
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| Scala Eresos |
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| Scala Eresos |
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| At Gavathas |
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| Sophia at Liota |
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| Liota |
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| Jay at Liota |
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| Church at Liota |
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| At church, Liota |
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| Scala Eresos |
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| Monastery Epsilou, Lesvos |
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| At Sigri, Lesvos |
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| The 'sitters', Eresos |
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| Gavathas |
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| Petrified forest of Lesvos |
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| Scala Eresos |
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| Under the plane tree, Eresos square |
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| AT Tavari, Lesvos |
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| Michlin Villa, Eresos |
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| Eresos House with proprietors Michaela and Linda |
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| Michael and Linda |
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| Bike ride from Eresos to Sigri |
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| With Tetsa and Yianni at Michlin Villa, Eresos |
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| Yianni of Eresos |
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| Athanasis of Eresos |
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| Eressos |
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| Last morning in Eresos hosted by the village folk |
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| Graffiti in Athens near our apartment |
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| Sophia and the Parthenon |
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| Jay on the Acropolis |
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| Ella and the Parthenon |
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| Parthenon museum |
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| National Archaeological Museum, Athens |
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| Cobra at Athens snake farm |
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| With Angheliki and Hendrick, our landlords in Pangrati, Athens in 1993 |
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| Arriving Cyprus |
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| Daymon, Dom and Ollie |
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| Agia Napa Waterpark |
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| Maria |
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| Yiorgos and Daymon |
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| Reunited sisters |
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| Luca and Dom |
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| Daymon and Dom get 'the beast' on the job for Yiayia's birthday |
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| Jay gives Yiayia her present - singing jack-in-box |
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| Picnic in Troodos mountains |
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| Remains of Eleni's parents house where Eleni was born, Palechori |
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| In Eleni's village Palechori |
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| Palechori, Cyprus |
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| Church of Saint Luca, Palechori |
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| In Palechori |
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| Hosted by Constantina's grandparents in village Askas |
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| Three generations - Constantina, Niki, Yiayia |
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| Theo and Nick |
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| Shelling hazelnuts at Archontiko Rousias, Palechori |
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| Palechori |
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| Eleni's relative Ioulia in Palechori |
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| In Palechori |
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| Theo serves us his pork feast at Archontiko Rousias |
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| Papou and Jay, Palechori |
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| Crysa, Daymon and Papou |
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| Palechori village square |
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| Kallistheni and Crysa |
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| Michael and Ella in Argaka, Cyprus |
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| Nono Richie, Argaka |
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| The Boys, Argaka |
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| Nelly, John, Davinia and Kleo |
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| At Argaka |
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| Cypriot feast at the Damianou's |
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| Sophia and Ella at the Baths of Aphrodite, Cyprus |
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| At Aphrodite's Rock, Cyprus |
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| Aphrodite Hills, Cyprus |
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| Happy birthday Theo |
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| At the Tomb of the Kings, Paphos, Cyprus |
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| Tomb of the Kings |
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| Paphos mosaics |
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| At Paphos mosaics site |
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| Aphrodite Hills |
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| Jay at the ancient Kourion Theatre, Limassol, Cyprus |
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| Crysa and Jay |
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| Jay and Luca on their ninth birthday at the Damianou's |
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| At the Damianou's, Nicosia |
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| Happy birthday Boys |
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| Live streaming the All Blacks at the Damianou's |
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| The Girls, Nicosia |
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| Barbara DeLeo hard at work, Le Meridian, Limassol |
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| Le Meridian, Limassol |
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| Last day in Cyprus at the Damianou's |
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| Athens airport. Three months, three countries, three generations - heading home |
