We collected our trusty vehicle in Nashville – a means of conjuring 28 days of road trip memories ahead of us. After a significant stuff up at the car depot due to an over zealous and meticulously painful booking agent we eventually – about three hours later – departed with a lovely new Nissan Rogue … More The Southern US Roadtrip – Part Two – In search of the liquid Gold – 2024
An early morning four hour flight from Los Angeles had us arriving at Nashville International Airport mid afternoon to 38 degree c temps. And so it remained that temp for the next four weeks. We’d pre booked an apartment just on the outskirts of downtown Nashville within easy walking distance to lots of sites. The … More The Southern US Roadtrip – Part One – On the Road Again starting in Nashville – 2024
Check out some of the fun we had on our latest adventure to the USA chasing music, food and beer which we took in August/September 2024. We’d been wanting to tick off this roadtrip for many years and this year everything fell into place. 6 weeks away and four weeks on the road from Nashville … More The Great Southern American Roadtrip – 2024
After our friends – Peter and Julie’s – daughter got married in Italy in 2014, Pete and Julie decided to up stumps in Australia, retire and move to Italy to be close to their daughter Rachel, Son in law Giuseppe and Grand Daughter Zoe. So, in September 2018 they took the plunge and moved, and … More They said we’d be bonkers to go to Honkers
The ferry trip across from Crete to Naxos was ok. We traveled on a SeaJet Champion vessel, which is a fairly large catamaran, that has multiple levels, and also two car parking levels. The prediction of rough seas had a few fellow passengers a bit nervous, but what can you do? The seating area is … More Sailing round Naxos
A simply stunning short flight from Athens to Heraklio/Heraklion/Iraklio/Ieraklio/Eraklion (you get my point?) and the madness of this airport is immediate. People running everywhere, no signs on the baggage carousels, no aircon, yelling, screaming…it’s brilliant! And ultimately it works. Our flight arrived about an hour late, and by the time we got our bags and … More Hanging with the Cretans
We had the morning to fill in before we left by small boat from Hydra back to the mainland, so had a lovely leisurely breakfast in the port area, watching the hustle and bustle of their daily business. Shopkeepers, hotel and Pensione owners, all meeting the boats that arrive en Masse with their daily deliveries … More Saint Pete the Apostle does Corinth
Again time to move on from a place we loved. This time leaving the mainland and like our time on Zakynthos, we now look forward to some time on the tiny island of Hydra. it can’t be too bad if the Great Leonard Chen called it home for the last 30 years of his life, … More Hopping across to Heavenly Hydra
Like all of our destinations this trip, it was sad to leave Monemvasia. Such an amazing place filled with beauty, history, culture. But, such is the thing with road tripping, you have to keep on moving on, and with every step along the way comes an exciting new adventure. This was no different. We probably … More Navigating to Nafplio
Today’s drive takes us from Pilos, in the Deep South west of the Peleponnese, in a region called Messinia across the bottom of an area known as The Mani, through some pretty rugged territory to the south east coast magical village of Monemvasia. What. A. Drive. It had bits of everything – including but not … More Motoring from Messinia across The Mani to Monemvasia
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