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. Â 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. Â 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 have our last fabulous breakfast at the Albatros. I would definitely recommend this small family run hotel. It has the friendliness of a family hotel but with very high standards and excellent customer service. We have a couple of hours before returning to the hotel for our taxi.   This has been a…
This really is turning out to be a beach holiday – well on the days we had sunshine anyway.  We aren’t ‘sit on the beach all day’ people but with the lack of excursions (I had really wanted to go to Albania and a trip to Corfu or one of the Sivotan islands) we are…
We take advantage of the nice weather spend the morning on Zavia Beach, saving our appetite for the evening. Late afternoon we change and get ready to head up to Perdika Village on the bus. Â This is the last bus of the day so we also take the details of Giogios the taxi driver so…
Today is another bright day and we’re certainly not going to take it for granted! After breakfast we decide to discover more of the coastline with an early morning walk. We had only viewed Zavia beach from the main road above the other day so decide to walk down to the beach itself – it’s…
Maria had arranged for Giorgios the taxi driver to pick us up at 10.00am from our hotel. He’s a very friendly chap and is happy to take us the 400km round trip. He has visited many times before but hasn’t been for a while so he will enjoy the trip also. After all the faffing…
We awake to another grey and overcast day. No rain as of yet – but we know that its coming! We head down for breakfast which again is a great feast. The Danes have their maps spread out across the tables planning their drive to Meteora – obviously much braver than I! Today we decide…
