Note: this is part of a trip that I started writing up in 2015. I lost many of my images during a hard drive failure but thankfully still have enough left to remind of this trip. ♥ One of the first things I usually do upon arriving on a new island is to check out…
NB This is part of a trip that I started writing up in 2015. I’ve got that sinking feeling – woooah that sinking feeling. I’ve got that sinking feeling and it’s time time time, time to pack my bag! Anyway, bags are packed and we just have time to have a final mooch around the…
NB This is a part of a trip that I started writing up in 2015 – how about that for procrastination! Today the only plan we have in mind is to visit the well known landmark called the Devil’s Eye. We head out from our lodgings at Hippocampus looking for somewhere to eat breakfast. Close…
Today is the day of a referendum to decide on whether Greece will accept the bailout conditions from the European Union. There is not much evidence of obvious campaigning here – no posters or even queues at polling stations. The only thing we can see is on the TV news. It looks like Oxi has…
Schinoussa along with the other Smaller Cyclades don’t come up in conversations about the Greek islands much – maybe with the exception of Koufonisi . With their close proximity to the popular islands of Naxos and Paros, I’m not quite sure why. They each have everything you could wish for in the perfect Greek island…
Today is a very lazy day. We spend most of it on Agios Georgios Beach where we watch the ferries and the fishing boats go in and out. The sand is fine and golden with a strip of pebbles along the shoreline. It isn’t an organised beach but there is a row of tamarisk trees…
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…