Life's about experiences. These are mine.
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”
So today was our last day at sea sailing over night from Montenegro back to Greece to leave our floating hotel for one on terra firma. The whole cruise operation is a slick one and with a ratio of two guests to every crew member it is hard not find someone no matter where you …
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I’m going to try and sound less like a card carrying UKIP member today… The final stop on the cruise before returning back to Corfu was Kotor in Montenegro. We had read that the sail into port was the closest you could get to the Norwegian fjords without actually going there but had to be …
Continue reading “Greece 2015 – Kotor, Montenegro – Hitting our Step Target Early”
Our second day in Croatia was spent in Dubrovnik, somewhere we have been wanting to visit for many years. Today we were berthed some three miles away from the old town and we had three transport options: local bus, taxi or Shanks’s pony and we chose the former. Like sheep we followed everyone else off …
Continue reading “Greece 2015 – Dubrovnik, Croatia – Invasion of the Germans”
Today we started to wind our way down back down the coast towards our final destination of Corfu with a stop at Split, Croatia. Unlike Venice yesterday, today the boat docked within walking distance of the old part of the city so we were able to have a leisurely start to the day. Like many …
Continue reading “Greece 2015 – Spilt, Croatia – Attack of the Camera Wielding Orientals”
This is the only stop on the cruise where we have been before, albeit some time ago, not that Venice is ever going to change that much. Last time we were here I came away decidedly unimpressed, for reasons I cannot really explain. This time I was wowed. I’m fickle like that. We were taken …
Continue reading “Greece 2015 – Venice, Italy – A Beauty Revisited”
The first “proper” day of the cruise was a stop in Koper, Slovenia and, no, I hadn’t heard of it before either. Looking out from the boat it looked a grey day and stepping off onto shore we found that there was a stiff breeze blowing keeping it pretty cool. Having done our homework we …
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