Hedgie the hoglet 🦔
Editing to add: this story has a sad ending 😢 Meet the latest addition! This is Hedgie the baby hedgehog and we are going to care for her for a […]
Lockdown lifts after six months
Well, after heading into lockdown on 7th November, today’s the day the restaurants and cafés may reopen, albeit for outside dining. But in Crete in May, outside dining is the […]
A trip outside Paleochora!
Well, this is a strange sensation. Today, we took a spin in the van, for leisure purposes! It is finally permissible to travel within your prefecture for non-essential reasons. This […]
Καλό Πάσχα / Kaló Páscha, happy Greek Easter!
So, although some Easter eggs arrived into local shops here two days before ‘our’ Easter on 4th April, it’s only now that the full decorations and treats are coming on […]
Why is Easter usually celebrated on a different date in Greece?
Did you know that Easter is celebrated in Greece on a different date to that which is marked by the Christian churches of western Europe? The short explanation for why […]
Γύθειο/Gytheio to Δρέπανο/Drepano
So, after our fourth time in Sparti, we finally hit the road north and travelled all the way up to the eastern part of the Peloponnese. We wanted to spend […]
Museum of the Olive and Olive Oil, Sparti
There’s no avoiding the importance of the olive in Greece. The trees are all around you, large and small, and it seems that every family has their own source of […]
Γύθειο / Gytheio, a tale of two halves
17th – 26th October 2020: After our short stop in Sparti, we were relieved to reach Gytheio, a gorgeous, rather small coastal town in the middle ‘finger’ of the Peloponnese. […]
Σπάρτη / Sparti, home of Spartans
The road from Kalamata to our next stop, Gytheio, took us through the town of Sparti. Well, you can’t just drive through a town like that, can you?! We didn’t […]
Καλαμάτα / Kalamata
On 16th October, we travelled south from Olympia to Kalamata, a trip of 121km. It’s a funny thing; you’d think three weeks in the Peloponnese would give you plenty of […]