CONTENT WARNING: DEAD DUDE! We saw the mummy of Tutankhamen and I've included a photo of him in this blog. Ancient Egyptians only lived on the East Bank of the river Nile. They worshipped the sun disc which rose in the east and set in the west, and why would you live where your god [...]
Ramses II liked building fuck off great big things to remind everyone of his general badassery and the temples at Abu Simbel are a fine example of this. They reckon he built this particular imposing temple in that location to warn those coming up the Nile from the south of his absolute power and to [...]
Dashur and Saqqara are a bit of a ballache to get to. We did contemplate Uber but the distances between the attractions within each site are also a bit of a bugger and, as we found out at Giza, traipsing around over uneven terrain in the Egyptian heat as your shoes slowly fill with sand [...]
We'd intended to arrive in Delphi on Wednesday, check out the really old shit on Thursday, take Friday as a spare day to catch up on life admin or stroll up and down a section of the E4 trail, then head north on Saturday. We booked accommodation accordingly. In a fine example of your classic [...]
We'd fully intended to pack up our worldly belongings into the car then head to a campsite in Mystras near Sparta to explore the area, but Camping Gythion Bay was just too fucking lovely. Mystras was less than an hour's drive away and if we stayed here it'd actually put us closer to our next [...]
So there's this rooster near where we stayed in Stemnitsa, which is actually fine because there's always a fucking rooster it seems and we're kind of used to it now. But every time the rooster crowed it triggered a dog which started howling. So our nice, rural alarm clock that we'd become accustomed to suddenly [...]
I can't believe it's actually still beach weather. Proper beach weather too, not that British excuse for beach weather when it's already dropped to being chilly enough for a jumper but you're determined to eke it out for as long as possible anyway because it's not raining yet and end up shivering by the shoreline, [...]
We really, really wanted to visit Delos, a super important archealogical island close to Mykonos. What we really, really didn't want to do was stay on Mykonos for two nights on account of it being obnoxiously expensive. The kind of expensive whereby you can only sob as you hand over anything north of €120 for [...]
This is it, the moment we've all been waiting for. Well, we have anyway. We'd saved this until last, largely on account of the fact we didn't want to visit at the weekend, but also you kind of want to build up to the main event don't you? The Acropolis, you can see if from [...]
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