A – ancient, atmospheric, Acropolis, architecture, accents, Apollo, Agora T – tourists, traces, transition, TailorMade, temples, tyranny, theatre H – history, Hadrian, heat, haloumi, Hitchcock, Hellenistic E – energy, Erechtheion,…
According to Wikipedia, the number of Greek islands is estimated to be somewhere around 1200 to 6000, depending on the minimum size to take into account. The number of inhabited…
No way! What is this? Two posts, two days! Still, I must persist. Today was the day we sat in Gatwick eating our way through Croissant and Salad due to…
It’s really hard to get back into the Scottish mindset, as I sit writing this from the table in our campsite in Crete. The temperatures have been in the mid…
The thing about Rome is that it’s busy, crowded, noisy, polluted, & a teensy bit overbearing. As a visitor in Rome (visitor is self-gratifying vernacular for “tourist”) you often feel…
After such a tumultuous period in our travels, our reunification with Kendall’s folks after more than eight months since we had last seen each other came at the perfect moment.…
Enduring ups and downs is all part of the game when you’re travelling, and sometimes the scales are skewed slightly towards the down side for slightly longer than one would…
Ok, ok, where do I start?! Kate and I had high expectations of Casa Linho; the website looked amazing, our communication with the hosts had been easy and helpful and…
Wwoofing @ Monte da Cunca Ok, as most of you will have deduced by now – Kate and I really, really enjoyed Wwoofing at Lynch Mill – so when it…
When a door slams shut in your face like it did for us in London at the start of 2013, we never imagined that a window of opportunity such as…
Hellooo People! After a couple of quiet, snowy weeks with family in Worcestershire while we figured out what the hell we were going to do with our lives – we…
In a sheer and incredible stroke of serendipity my Auntie and Uncle had spent New Year’s in Venice and had kindly invited us to stay for a couple of days…
We landed in Florence a week before Christmas for our first house sitting assignment – looking after the deliciously ugly Rosalita and her home. You could say our experience of…
To all of our friends, family, colleagues, clients, acquaintances, accomplices & their respective pets, Merry Christmas!!! Or as the Italians say, Buon Natale!!! With love & merriment, Kendall, Kate &…
“The creation continues incessantly through the media of man”. Antoni Gaudi (Stick to the natural order of things, & read El Camino San Antoni Gaudi – Part I first.) PARC…
“Those who look for the laws of nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator”. Antoni Gaudi For the last 3 months, we have brought an…
Welcome back – if you want to be chronological about it, make sure you read Gettin Andaloosier! – Part I first! SANLUCAR DE BARRAMEDA This little coastal town on the…
We had arrived in Granada, thawed out from our visit to Norway, hung out with my uncle Chris for his birthday, and visited the Alhambra (twice). Spain was already looking…
“Though the shadows of these walls have long since gone, the memory of them will live on as the final refuge of dreams and art. And then the last nightingale…
First up guys, apologies for the massive delay in getting this post out but Spain has been fricken awesome with so much to do and digest (literally) that the prospect…
Documentary evidence of the fun you can have with a bottle of wine, a game of yahtzee & some less-than-standard map pins. Should only be attempted when visiting old friends…
It had always been our plan to see some of Norway’s amazing coastline from the waters of the fjords. Although we had to endure passage alongside your typical cruise patrons…
I was going to write a decent post on this Artic City but I arsed about with the Northern Lights post so I will keep it short. Tromso is cold…
Imagine this: we are further north than either of us have ever been; at 69 degrees, we are more than 300 kilometres into the Arctic Circle. The temperature is below…
“It leaps through us, through all our heavens leaps, Extinguishing our planets, one by one, Leaving, of where we were and looked, of where” Wallace Stevens “Where are you going?”…
After a day of exploring the south west coast and a hot sleepless night, I am sitting in our Bamboo furnished room overlooking Balian beach, it’s sand blacker than the…
Ken Ken Korabi When Kate and I decided that a holiday in Bali before embarking upon our travels in the old world was a good idea, we had a couple…
Om Swastiastu We have been in Bali now for 3 days, after our journey over the mountains to the north coast we have begun to find the ‘Bali time’ that…
We are off and racing! As was phrophesied some weeks ago we took it down to the line (Black Caviar Royal Ascot style) – at 7pm the bags were opened and…
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