Oh Naxos, you absolute dream! It's bigger than the other islands we've visited, more mountainous and dramatic with the kind of narrow, winding roads that trigger all manner of fear of heights as you climb higher and higher on your little scooter. Every curve, every hairpin turn is an act of faith. And steering, obviously. [...]
Well Paros didn't get off to the best start did it? We weren't originally going to come here but a last minute change of plan had us thinking fuck it, let's have a look shall we? The ferry crossing wasn't long, only a couple of hours, but the wind was insane. The crew handed out [...]
Us: I don't want to do any more hiking in Greece, it's too fucking hot. Also us: Shall we climb that fuck off big mountain over yonder? I say fuck off big mountain, it's about 640 metres and you drive most of that but it does look kind of intimidating from the ground and it's [...]
So Tinos turned out to be a bit of a highlight. I'm not sure what we were really expecting, we'd planned to rent a scooter (sorry, mum) and just sort of bum around a little bit, y'know? I'd found a list of some villages that people had said were nice so off we fucked to [...]
I'm not going to lie, I'm pretty sad to be leaving Athens but Greece is massive and we'd like to see a bit more of it. I can't get over the random bits of history they just have lying about the place. Like, you'll be walking along and you'll see an excavation and a board [...]
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 [...]
The two historic sites we jammed firmly into our eyeholes today didn't take us long at all. It's not that they're not cool, they're very cool, they're just tiny. We started with Hadrian's Library. We've seen his fuck off big wall, why not his book stash? This is the beast you see as you walk [...]
There is so much history in Athens, so many ancient monuments to put in your eyeholes that we decided to spread everything out over the four full days we were here so we didn't get historied out. It's a real fucking thing, guys. Like in Rajasthan, India when just the thought of visiting another fort [...]
I will absolutely class the South West Coast Path as one of my most favourite things I've ever done. I'm not saying I loved every footstep, obviously I had bad days, we both did. You can't have a good day every day for 54 days in a row if you're an actual human being. But [...]
The original plan was to get to Prestatyn around 3pm, check into our hotel for showers and to abandon our backpacks then finish the trail bagless and in flip flops and ready to pour obnoxious quantities of prosecco into our chops. However, this would mean tackling various hills in heat unbefitting of North Wales so [...]
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