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 [...]
Tag: Greece
Island Hopping – Andros
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 [...]
The Mighty Acropolis
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 [...]
A Metric Crap Tonne Of Athens
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 [...]
Getting To Know Athens
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 [...]