May 2023

Stormy Days

Sunday 28th May. We woke up to a fresh sunny day, which after yesterday’s huge storm, was quite a relief. Down the coast we pulled off the main road at Kalo Nero. and enjoyed ice teas in The Blue Cafe. Sitting beside the stony beach Rodney and Cliff Richards would be happy because the sky […]

Modern Greece And Ancient Greece

Thursday 25th May. After a very busy morning on the computer (more on that much later) we lazed away the afternoon on the beach and by the pool, before another good dinner in the restaurant with Sue and. Mike. Friday 26th May Activity is required for old bodies. So at 9:45am the four of us

This Is Greece, At Last

Monday 22nd May. We slept long and deep like bears in hibernation. Indecision confused us at the beginning of the day but finally we made a decision to stay a second night at Camping Kariotes.  Then the second decision of the day was to get the bikes off the back and go for a ride,

Things Can Only Get Better….Surely

Friday 19th May. We woke up to a sunny day in our tiny trulli.  That lifted our spirits.  No looking for something around corners today. No driving.  We just stopped.  Saturday 20th May. At 9:15am we farewelled Giuliana in the garden of Trulli Dai Conte and prepped Reggie for moving again.  We filled him up

Puglia Revisited

Wednesday 17th May It rained all night, but it did stop at breakfast time and the sun peeked out then, beyond all expectation, it stayed out for most of the day!  We started the day driving west to Gravina-In-Puglia, in search of a bridge that James Bond jumped off, in the movie ‘No Time To

Sogginess Is Not Good For The Soul

Sunday 14th May.  It rained most of the night and then most of the day at the beach resort of Riccione on the soggy Rimini coast.  So the main topic of conversation over breakfast was of course….. the dreadful weather. We even thought about heading back to England to dry out !! The campsite swimming

Giving It Another Go

We’re gonna give it another go, another tour out across Europe in Reggie. Hopefully this year we’ll also return to the UK in Reggie, although I feel like I just tempted fate typing those words.  So fingers and toes are fully crossed. Tuesday 9th May.  We drove from Kettering in Northamptonshire down to Folkestone in

Finding Family

Back to UK for more travels in Reggie, with a very important side trip to Canada to fnd a huge ‘bunch of Hansens’ that we never knew about until 2021. It turns out that we have a much bigger family than we ever imagined. Three days after flying from Sydney to England, Rodney and I

Amazing Alberta

I didn’t have time to type a blog when we were in Canada; we were too busy going “oooh” and “aaah” and “wow”. Very soon after Rodney and I had arrived in England, we flew out again with big brother Neil. I had discovered Hansen relatives in and around Calgary, so we had a darn

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