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    Athens & Kalamata: Tales From Two Cities

    October 7, 2021 /

    After eleven weeks in Greece and its islands we are into the last week of our journey through this sun soaked land, leaving the wonderful island of Milos and taking the short prop plane flight over the Aegean to Athens. Amusingly the bus ride from Athens airport to Syntagma Square takes considerably longer than the flight. It’s only two years since we were last here in the Greek capital so this visit is one of expedience and we are here just for a single night, in an 8th floor hotel room with magnificent views of the Acropolis. After so many weeks in an assortment of apartments and houses, a hotel…

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    From Paros To Sifnos

    September 30, 2021 /

    “They are very bad people. Dirty money”.  Isabella, the hugely likeable matriarch of our host family on Paros, is holding court. “Too many bad people at the top”, she says, “this is how Greece is”. Isabella always has time to talk, by her own admission she likes to get to know her guests, and our late afternoon ferry means we too have time to kill today. Now, the subject has turned to the recent summer fires across Greece, and Isabella is, disturbingly, the third person we’ve met on this trip to expound the same theory. There seems to be a widespread opinion that when the heatwave came, significant money changed…

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    Ending This Journey: A Weekend In Athens

    September 9, 2019 /

    Finishing off our tour of the Cyclades with a weekend in the wonderful city of Athens

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    From The Islands To Athens

    September 7, 2019 /

    Leaving Gavrio and Andros behind we take the ferry to Rafina and begin our tour of the wonderful city of Athens

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