Life's about experiences. These are mine.
We’re not great museum goers in the Thompson household, although the Pitt Rivers in Oxford is excellent. However, we do make exceptions when there is something a bit different going on. The last Friday in the month the Natural History Museum in London opens late (until 10pm) and what sealed the deal, for Helen at any …
A quick look at my last.fm profile will tell you that I am pretty fond of a bit of Genesis. While I don’t mind the Phil Collins era (I’m a fan of Duke for example) it’s the Peter Gabriel era that really floats my boat. There have been numerous suggestions over the years that the …
Now that I am back home and have wifi that doesn’t run at a snails pace I have been able to upload a selection of photos from the trip for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy! [AFG_gallery id=’17’]
Last days of a holiday are always difficult as there’s the packing up, checking out and then the hanging around at the airport. Fortunately for us our flight wasn’t until 9pm and we still had the hire car so we could make the most of the day. We spent all the afternoon back in Corfu …
Continue reading “Greece 2015 – Corfu Town, Corfu – And Home Again”
It’s our penultimate day in Corfu and we are beginning to struggle to find new things to do, part of the problem to coming to an island so small and not being the sort of people to just sit and relax by the pool! We have been so lucky with the weather so far but …
Continue reading “Greece 2015 – Mouse Island, Corfu – Threatening Skies”
While Corfu is a small island traversing it can take a while as the roads are narrow, windy and not very well maintained. So a trip from Ermones to Kassiopi which is about 25 miles takes an hour and a half. Of course it’s not a bad view as you make your way over but …
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An early start for a trip further afield today with a trip to Albania. Now before today all I really knew about Albania was that it was the country that America went to war with in the film Wag the Dog. I’m also told by the world’s biggest Liam Neeson fan (hat-tip Tim) that the …
Continue reading “Greece 2015 – Butrint, Albania – “Taken” by the Archaeological Beauty”
Today we decided to do a walk around the area local to the hotel. We did this a couple of years ago when we were here last and knew it to be a pretty walk but that the instructions were somewhat inaccurate. With the instructions that I had amended after our last time we set …
Continue reading “Greece 2015 – Ermones, Corfu – How’s Your Vatos?”
Corfu is a small island and so it is difficult to find new things to do but today we stumbled upon somewhere we hadn’t been before. On our way to the very beautiful Vlacherna Monastery we stopped at some Roman ruins that we had seen before but never got round to. Opposite was an unprepossessing entrance …
Continue reading “Greece 2015 – Keykyra, Corfu – Hunt for the Cafe Bristol”
After a leisurely start to the day that included a talk from the Thomson rep telling us of all the wonderful things we could do while on the island we set off in our little hire car to the pretty seaside “town” of Paleokastritsa. When we were here two years ago at roughly the same …
Continue reading “Greece 2015 – Paleokastritsa, Corfu – Exchanging One Boat for Another”