Athens is the starting point for our next trip. I’d usually have a day or two in Athens at the end of an island hopping trip because you know that feeling when you leave the islands? Sometimes like a little bit of your heart has broken off? Yes, and Athens is a good diversion from…
Rightieho! We are up and raring to kill this one day in Athens! Having been many times over the last thirty or so years I always try to see or do something different on each visit to Athens. Our main aim today is to go to the top of Mount Lycabettus and also visit the…
The Acropolis opens at 8.00am. Despite being a regular visitor to Greece it is nearly 20 years since I have been to Athens. What I do remember is the massive queues to get into the Acropolis and the difficulty in getting photographs without hoards of tourists in the background. No matter how exhausted we are…
When we arrived at the port of Adamas on the Seajet last night, there was plenty of choice regarding rooms – there were at least a dozen or so people were waiting with photographs of rooms for rent on the island. Peter and I still hadn’t decided where to stay but we had thought that…