It is difficult to fit everything in – even in 8 days on a small island, but Kasos has so much to offer – more than I imagined. Today the plan was to catch the free bus to Agia Marina and then on to Ammoua beach which I have yet to visit. I got so…
I’m halfway through my 8 nights on Kasos and this beautiful low key island has already stolen a piece of my heart. This island is so unspoilt and unusually doesn’t appear to have been ’boutiquified’ for the masses. Getting around the island is relatively easy. From the main port village Fri, it is very easy…
My host for the rest of the week had arranged to meet me at 9.30am. I hadn’t unpacked anything but had managed to pull some clean clothes to wear from the top of my suitcase until I’d got settled in the other house. Unbeknown to me my host had other plans. After thanking and paying…
The ferry journey from Heraklion to Kasos is just over 6 hours with one stop at Sitia further down the East coast of Crete. The ferry ticket on the Prevelis costs 20 euros. I had been in two minds whether to travel to Sitia by bus as an opportunity to visit there but because of…
I must admit I have been more than a little blasé with regard to planning this trip – no real attention to detail with the timing of the ferries etc. Anyway, I realised that I would have to leave Heraklion a day earlier than envisaged to catch the ferry to Kasos which really is a…
Despite the high heat and humidity in Heraklion, I’ve spent very little time on the beach cooling off in the sea. There isn’t really a beach in walking distance of Heraklion city – one of the nearest being Ammoudara abut 20 minutes on the bus to the west. I did visit this beach one day…
Although I have a week in Heraklion and it’s a big city, I want to get out and explore. Today I’ve decided to go to Rethymnon just an hour and half away by public bus. The first thing that I must say is how impressed I am with Heraklion’s KTEL bus station. It is clean…
Knossos was top of my list of things to do in Heraklion and the reason I based myself here. I know Knossos is a very busy place so decided to get an early bus to beat the queues. The bus stop is two minutes from my apartment and has a small ticket hut that is…
This journey begins in Heraklion. I have a one-way ticket and a limited budget that I hope will last me for at least 6 weeks though longer if possible. The vague plan I have is to spend one week in each of Heraklion, Kasos and Karpathos before meeting up with family on Rhodes on the…
It has taken a long time for me to pick up from where I left off writing up about this trip. There are several reasons for that. I had travelled to Athens and then on to Patras with my daughter as we had just been accepted as volunteers – myself with FoodKind and my daughter…
The presence of the smugglers was even more apparent in the little factory, an old abandoned carpet manufacturing plant that seems to have been frozen in time. Lengths of carpet still hung suspended from the looms. It had the advantage of a rigged-up power supply ideal for charging phones, and it also had some semblance…
In the spring of 2017, I had returned from a memorable 3-week holiday in the Peloponnese. This had been no ordinary trip. I’d been deeply unhappy in my job for a while, and I knew something had to change. This trip had been an opportunity to assess my options, which at the time felt very…