Back on the south coast of Crete
28 May – 4 June 2021: We just couldn’t stay away 😊 We know we have a long journey ahead of us back to Ireland and so, while we are […]
Travelling Drapanias to Agia Galini
On the road again! Today we departed Camping Mithimna and headed east along the northern coastline of Crete almost as far as Rethymnon, then turned inland. We stopped for lunch […]
Resting a while in Drapanias
Three nights in this lovely campsite, Camping Mithimna, getting bitten to bits by mosquitoes! But it’s so peaceful under these tamarisk trees; all you can hear is the sound of […]
Manolis’s olive grove in Προδρόμι / Prodromi
Today we took a trip up into the hills behind Paleochora to visit the olive groves belonging to Manolis Klironomakis. Manolis is from Paleochora and he has a clothes shop […]
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 […]
August in Guia
Our time in Guia is coming to an end and we have had a lovely time here in the apartment (although Saul and I do really miss vanlife… we nearly […]
June, still in Silves, reluctant to move
June for us has consisted of more of the same – very lovely scenery, lots of walks with Pip, and trips to almost empty beaches. We are trying our best […]
Life on site and stork-watch
Hello all and we hope you are all safe and well. Another update from us here in Silves, Portugal. Portugal exited the State of Emergency just over two weeks ago […]