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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]