Thursday 22nd June Stuck in Greece and waiting, waiting, waiting. Wash bedding √. Yoga √ . Empty toilet √. Read motorhome manual again √. Wash floor √. Check route through Italy √. Check bank accounts √. Sort photos √. Update blog √. Answer emails √. Research next campsites in Italy √. Etc √. Etc √. […]
Monday 19th June With the temperature already hovering on 25C, we left Camping Delphi around 9:30am, drove down the hill towards Atria and then started the winding, wiggly road north. The GPS told us that the 220-kilometre journey would take us 3 hours 37 minutes, but we knew it would be longer than that for
Saturday 17th June With a fresh loaf of bread, warm from the campsite kitchen, we headed west along the top coast of the Peloponnese. Thunder was rumbling when we woke up and it was forecast to be a damp squib of a day, but it was sunny as we set off at 10:00am. The motorway
Thursday 15th June The alarm went off at an early hour. Eurgh. The sun had already risen, but was still low on the horizon and definitely worth another photo. At 8:15 am we got our ‘rolling tortoise’ back on the road and headed to Epidavros; the ancient ruins on land, not the ones underwater. By
Tuesday 13th June, We needed to find somewhere that sold food that wasn’t already on a plate. We found a Lidl, with a little help from our friends, almost in the centre of Nafplio. It still surprises me that a bit of food shopping can be so enjoyable when travelling like this and I can’t
Saturday, 10th June. At 9.30am we left the Lakonikos Gulf behind us and drive up through Sparti to Mystras. This was on our list of historic sites to be seen on our tour of Greece. We didn’t know, or research it well enough, to realise that it is set on the side of very steep
Wednesday 7th June. Having seen very little in the way of attractive architecture all the way down from Igoumenitsa, it was lovely to finally see interesting little square houses. Mostly they were small, constructed with shaped rocks and terracotta roofs and there were some larger houses built much the same, but often with a square,
Sunday 4th June Rodney’s birthday morning involved 3½ hours of the wiggliest driving so far. I was only the passenger/navigator, and I was exhausted!! It was 1:00 pm by the time we arrived at Camping Kalogria near Stoupa. We picked a pitch under the shade of eucalyptus trees, a bit close to the road, but
Friday 2nd June. This morning’s bathroom entertainment was a bit of …. nothing? Someone must have forgotten to turn it on, which weirdly felt a bit disappointing. “Enough”, we said, ”let’s move east, across to Koroni and see if their bathrooms have a better selection of music!” Soon after leaving Finiwhatsit, Reggie was climbing up
Wednesday 31st May. Wandering around Methoni Castle for at least two hours was our next ‘looking-around-corners’ stop. It was a fabulous castle and it needed that long to cover the whole area; although I do believe we did miss some corners. Then the prawn salad lunch at Modon Restaurant in Methoni was delicious; best meal