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 […]
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 […]
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 […]