Life's about experiences. These are mine.
We had decided to take part in one of the organised activities this morning – a walk to a local bee producers. About a dozen people including ourselves turned up to be taken by the tour guide just a short distance to the factory where the owner was on hand to show us round and …
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Although we have a hire car we decided that it would be better to take the bus from the hotel to Corfu Town today. It seemed that everyone else from the hotel had also had the same idea as the bus was packed and we seemed to get shuffled from being at the front of …
We got out and about in the hire car today. We decided to visit Mount Pantokrator, the highest point on the island at 906M, as it had been recommended both in the books and by the local guide. You can drive right to the very top of the mountain and as it is a very …
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Try as you might it is impossible to escape the fact that this is a package holiday, one of the very few we have ever taken, perhaps only our second. This means that there is a rep here in the hotel and this morning there was a welcome meeting for all the new guests. While …
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So that is week one of the holiday done and we move from ship to shore as we transfer to a hotel. In some ways I will be sorry to leave the ship behind. It is a great way to see a number of destinations in a short space of time, which is exactly why …
And as if by magic Helen was better again meaning that we could do something together today. We actually had nothing planned and had already decided to see what the port destination was like before deciding. Katakolon is pretty but tiny and with very little in the way of diversions. The reason the boat stops …
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I was Helen-less again today which was really disappointing for both of us. It’s not much fun being ill and I personally don’t find holidaying on my own much fun either. However, there seemed little point not making the most of the day so I set off early for Athens on my own. The last …
We had only booked two official shore excursions and today was the second one – to Ephesus in Turkey (yes I know that this is supposed to be a cruise around the Greek isles but this one slipped in). Unlike the clear blue skies of the last few days today was overcast and threatening but …
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Today was the stop I had been most looking forward to and after such a big build up it was bound to fall short surely? Today was our trip to Santorini. If you have ever seen any pictures of the Greek islands they are bound to feature the white washed walls and blue domes of …
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For some reason we forgot that we were on holiday and booked up a 18 mile bike ride for today around the island of Crete. OK not around all of it obviously but it felt it at the time. So we met up with our over enthusiastic Austrian tour guide Alex at 8am where we …
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