The museums at Ancient Olympia
This is for those with an interest in seeing some of the incredible finds at the site of Ancient Olympia. Not everything here relates to the Olympic Games, not by […]
Ολυμπία/Ancient Olympia
After the trauma of last night’s midnight-dash through a huge storm in search of cover and higher ground, we decided not to take any chances and to treat ourselves to […]
Πάτρα/Patras, a pitstop tour
On the Peloponnese, hooray! Because of the forecast for storms, we only stayed for a few hours in Patras, as we wanted to travel further south by nightfall. Patras is […]
Crossing the Rio-Antirrio bridge
Next step: the Peloponnese, woohoo! It has long been a dream for us (Saul & Caitríona) to return to the Peloponnese where we went on our first holiday together in 1997 […]
Western Greece to Πελοπόννησος/the Peloponnese
Departing Lefkada was not the end of our driving for the day, however! In our desire to travel away from the eye of the coming storm, we headed south from […]
A spin around Λευκάδα/Lefkada
It’s hard to put into words how pretty Lefkada is. It is mountainous and has other small islands dotted off the coast. The island is 35km long and 15km wide, […]
Camping Desimi Beach, Νυδρί/Nydri
The campsite we headed for is located on the east coast of Lefkada, facing out towards Meganisi island. It’s about 22km from Lefkada town in the north to the village […]
From Πρέβεζα/Préveza to Λευκάδα/Lefkada
Once we had got ourselves up and organised, we hit the road for Lefkada, one of the islands off the north west coast of Greece. We thought it would be […]
Overnight in Πρέβεζα/Préveza
Entering Préveza a couple of miles down the road from Nikopolis, our final stop for the day Once in Préveza, we attended to housekeeping duties – laundry, shopping, a bite […]
Νικόπολις/Nicopolis, on the road from Ηγουμενίτσα/Igoumenitsa to Πρέβεζα/Préveza
On Wednesday 7th October, we headed off from Igoumenitsa. It sure was a good feeling to be hitting the road on our travels through Greece. We are surprised at how […]