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

A couple of magnificent days on the beautiful and varied island of Zakynthos. Now we know what all the hype and talk is about, and to be fair is all on the money. We bid farewell to the lovely hostess Peppi at Ammoudi, and headed back into the port town of Zante to join our … More Hey Zeus!

We left Delphi behind, hoping to return again one day, possibly in the winter and settled in for what was to be a very pleasant three hour drive. The weather wasn’t fabulous, but for a day in the car a bit of rain was never going to hurt anyone. We had to head across the … More Zenzational Zakynthos….

Athens to Delphi – An Ancient History Master Class After the pressure cooker oven conditions of Dubai, it was an absolute pleasure to get on the Emirates flight bound for Athens for this enjoyable 4 1/2 hour flight. We’d done quite a bit of research about the best way to approach this road trip, and … More Homer and Herodotus – or Ralph and Karen? A REAL Greek Road Trip

After months of planning our next adventure of driving around Greece and renewing what little we remembered of our long ago studied Angient Greece, we set off. We decided that we’d fly Emirates airlines, as we hadn’t flown them before and it offered us an opportunity to have a quick look around Dubai. The whole … More Dubai…in July…

Belfast to the Far North In  the lead up and preparation for our French Road Trip, our very good friends Finn & Wendy from Canada contacted us to say they’d be in Ireland on a golfing holiday around the same time to celebrate a Milestone Birthday event for Finn… Would we like to catch up?  Well, … More Gotta Love the Irish ! – Then Back to London – 2016