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, [...]
There are a couple of things worth putting in your eyeholes if you're in Corinth, one of which is Ancient Corinth, an excavation a few kilometres from the new city of Corinth. Y'know, assuming you're not complete over really, really old broken shit by now. A bit more broken shit for your viewing pleasure. The [...]
The done thing on Santorini is to put the caldera in your eyeholes from every available angle. It's a volcanic island, there's volcanic craters on an island in the middle of the vast bay, and the shape of the bay itself was caused by a whopping great eruption, and that's the flooded caldera you've come [...]
It's like you can't have a really good experience on an island without it then being counteracted by the next. Santor-fucking-rini, honestly, what the actual fuck? We'd intended to stay at the campsite in Fira but the reviews were crap and we still had that shithole on Paros on our minds. So we went wayyyyy [...]
We woke up on the Sunday and decided to nope out of any manner of immediate movement. Fuck it, it's the Lord's day and she'd want us to be happy and anyway, we're on holiday. The campsite is slap bang opposite the beach so we lounged in bed (or on the inflatable mattresses that pass [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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