We arrived in Crete, Greece’s largest and most southerly island relatively refreshed after our comfortable sleep on the ferry and hopped out of the ship ready to explore. We had a plan so left the exploring of Iraklio and visiting Knossos for later.... Read more >

Rhodes

GREECE | Tuesday, 12 May 2009 | Views [975]

Hi All, Another night spend on a super ferry. Santoniri wasn’t the ferries first port of call and there were people already spread out laying across the seats leaving only a few and not enough for the oncoming people. You learn relatively quickly ... Read more >

Santorini

GREECE | Tuesday, 12 May 2009 | Views [1173]

Hi All, Well things didn’t quite go to plan with our departure from Mykonos to Santorini as our ferry was cancelled due to high winds and rough seas.The seas were dead calm at Mykonos and there wasn’t a puff of breeze to be felt so it came as a great ... Read more >

Gallery: Rhodes

GREECE | Monday, 11 May 2009 | Photo Gallery

Gallery: Santorini

GREECE | Saturday, 9 May 2009 | Photo Gallery

Mykonos

GREECE | Tuesday, 5 May 2009 | Views [1060]

Hi All, Off to an early start this morning .Left the hotel at just after 515am and quickly walked through the dark streets to catch the metro to catch our ferry to Mykonos.We were however not alone on the streets as the streets were overflowing with ... Read more >

Gallery: Mykonos

GREECE | Tuesday, 5 May 2009 | Photo Gallery

Athens again

GREECE | Sunday, 3 May 2009 | Views [719]

Hi All, We did some checks to make sure the train system was running before heading off on the bus and the trip went quickly with a good view of the Corinth channel. We caught the bus to the metro and found that one line was closed but the one to the ... Read more >

Nafplio

GREECE | Sunday, 3 May 2009 | Views [837]

Hi All, We arrived with no map and no information. Don’t they get tourists around this place? Vanessa stayed with the packs and I went walking around to find tourist information and found an information booth that was closed. Another trip around the ... Read more >

Athens

GREECE | Sunday, 3 May 2009 | Views [900]

Yasas All, Surprisingly Athens is not overly tourist friendly despite having held the Olympics’ in 2004. The was no tourist information at the bus station but thankfully a friendly and attractive lady in diamante incrusted gumboots from our bus helped ... Read more >

Gallery: Nafplio

GREECE | Saturday, 2 May 2009 | Photo Gallery

Gallery: Athens,Greece

GREECE | Thursday, 30 Apr 2009 | Photo Gallery

Gallery: Corfu,Greek Islands

GREECE | Thursday, 30 Apr 2009 | Photo Gallery

Gallery: Sorrento and surrounding areas

ITALY | Sunday, 26 Apr 2009 | Photo Gallery

Corfu, Greece

GREECE | Sunday, 26 Apr 2009 | Views [1004]

Hi All, So much going on. Have been getting a little behind on the blog as we have been seeing so many places in our travels and it is hard to summarise without writing a book. We also haven’t had easy access to mains power in the caravan parks so ... Read more >

Sorento

ITALY | Sunday, 26 Apr 2009 | Views [785]

Hi All, Yes the blog has been a bit ratty lately. Ahh. That sweet sorento moon. well it would have been if we could see it for the clouds... Train from rome to naples Creepy graffiti looking place as we arrived at station. Nothing open for information ... Read more >

Rome

ITALY | Sunday, 26 Apr 2009 | Views [835]

Rome blog entry is still under construction but just like rome may never be fully finished We arrived at the very large rome train station and Vanessa watched the bags as I went looking for tourist information. Two trips later and we had the rome ... Read more >