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 [...]
Somewhere between Ancient Olympia and Kalamata is a river, and this river has made several pools ideal for swimming assuming you have no nerve endings, and there are little waterfalls, and also a big waterfall, and maybe more shit but that would have involved a level of scrambling that someone with the balance of a [...]
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 [...]
So we had all these convoluted plans to get buses to bigger towns then rent a car to do a little section of smaller towns in the surrounding area with shit bus links, slowly making our way across the Peloponnese until we ended up in Ancient Olympia. After that we'd head north via Patra. Then [...]
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, [...]
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