Tarrant had had her little heart set on visiting some actual, proper German Christmas markets for bloody ages, so this year off we fucked to Munich in order to consume our body weight in Bratwurst. I wasn’t too keen on the idea of Christmas markets, I’ll be honest. Once I’ve shovelled a phallic-shaped dead pig [...]
Sunday - UFO tower Monday - City walking tour Tuesday - Hrad Devín Wednesday - Wine tasting Slovak food & drink Tarrant lost her penknife weeks ago. We had no idea where it might have been. She'd periodically turn the house upside-down looking for it to no avail, it was quite the mystery. Of course [...]
You have to book your tickets for the Real Alcázar quite far in advance if you want to be fussy about when you want to go and I would highly recommend you go as early as you can unless you're really quite fond of standing in a line of other humans, likely in stifling heat [...]
Alright, we're doing it, we're going back to Spain despite the fact last time we went if it could go tits up it very much did go tits up culminating in Tarrant stacking it off a segway in spectacular fashion and shattering her tibial plateau in the process. She's still walking with a stick and [...]
After we'd conquered the mighty Mount Olympus, or it conquered us depending on which of my muscle groups you asked, we'd planned to head to Thessaloniki. No big reason, it wasn't the weather to go exploring any nearby beaches on pretty peninsulas. So we figured fuck it, why not just stay in Kalambaka? We prefer [...]
Climb up the highest mountain in Greece, they said. It'll be fun, they said. By "they" I mean me, obviously, and now we're both walking like we've shat ourselves. We didn't go to the highest of the 52 peaks either on account of not having a death wish. Mytikas is 2917 m.a.s.l. and is quite [...]
There used to be a bus all the way from Delphi to Kalambaka, the jump off for Meteroa which is basically a landscape of interesting rocks. Obviously Covid shat all over that and now you have to spend over five hours bus hopping your way up Central Greece. Fortunately your route is planned for you [...]
In my twenty-odd years of driving I've never seen so many people casually driving down the middle of narrow roads, at speed, on a blind corner. It's utterly fucking terrifying. Greek drivers are maniacs. I've been crawling around the hairpin bends, we've met so many drivers coming the other way and they don't even try [...]
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 [...]
We'd heard tell of some show caves and we're quite the fans of show caves so that's where we headed first this morning via a bakery in Areopoli for the caffeine necessary to jump start our basic motor functions. Possibly should have done that before driving a car but so many people here drive so [...]
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