We have a fantastic nights sleep on a very comfortable mattress at the Aiolos Hotel. Michael’s mother tends a large vegetable plot located below our balcony. The soil looks rock hard and in this heat, must need lots of water which she carts back and forth from an outdoor tap in buckets. She is growing…
Today we leave Naxos and will be catching the Blue Star Naxos to the little island of Iraklia – the beginning of our exploration of the Little Cyclades. We haul our luggage down the ancient winding streets of the Kastro to the port where we have a cup of tea whilst we wait for the…
Today we are doing the island bus tour. Today is the first day we’ve had to set the alarm – being lazy has been heaven! The bus leaves at 9.30am so we need to get our skates on. Firstly we walk down from the Kastro to the port making a short pit stop at the…
What’s wrong with us! This our second beach day in a row! Well – when on Naxos you have to take advantage of one of its best assets which is its long stretches of white sand beaches. Today we decide to go to Plaka – lets see if it’s the same as I remember it…
It was 9.30am before we awoke and we were feeling quite exhausted. We decide to have a lazy day on the beach to finally lay all of the stresses of the previous days travel to rest. We had picked up the bus timetable the previous evening and it shows that there is a very good…
We are so lucky to have 18 days for this trip. Last year we had 16 days for our trip to Kea, Kythnos, Serifos and Sifnos and those extra couple of days really made all the difference to a regular two week holiday. I had taken so long deliberating over which islands to visit this…