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

Riviera to Champagne ~ via Le Route Napoleon So now for one of the highlights of our road trip, the drive from Grasse through Digne to Sisteron along the Route Napoleon. The current Route Napoléon, first opened in 1932, follows the route taken by Napoléon I in 1815 on his march from Elba to Grenoble. … More Vive le France ! – Road Trip Part 4 – 2016

  Aix en Provence and the French Riviera So now we were deep in the South of France, beyond most of the flooding and road blocks and collapses. Time to head across to Nice for a bit of R&R and to meet up with Erin, but first there was some serious eating to be done…. … More Vive le France ! – Road Trip Part 3 – 2016

  Paris to The Lovely Loire, and all roads lead to Provence Stop reading and delete now if you get annoyed with hearing about amazing meals, splendiferous scenery, inappropriate drinking behaviours and random weird experiences that we seem to find ourselves involved in.  Otherwise enjoy the next bit of our adventure…. When we left you … More Vive le France ! – Road Trip Part 2 – 2016

Paris to get the ball rolling…..but first ~ One night in Bangkok Well, it’s been a while since we’ve been away and bored you with these inane updates of our wanderlust – exactly a year in fact, since we were in Italy for Rachel & Giuseppe’s wedding; a fantastic trip. On the back of that … More Vive le France ! – Road Trip Part 1 – 2016

Tuesday morning we were picked up nice and early to be driven across the island to catch a speed boat over to Nusa Lembongan, departing from the beautiful, yellow sand beach side resort town of Sanur.  Really well organised. The boat ride is about 30mins across a pretty serious bit of ocean.  And we are in … More All the NUSA’s – Lembongan, Ceningan and Penida – just beautiful !