After an amazing breakfast in the cave room below (yogurt, sausage, bacon, eggs, fresh-squeezed orange juice, bread), we bid our goodbyes (yiasou, in Greek) to this Hobbit town. Carting our bags back… more →
Melinda Trips 2007: Sicily and Peloponnesewrote 3 days ago: Karte aufbewahren! 1.10.90 Ihr Lieben, nochmals viele Grüße aus einem Superurlaub senden Euch Opa, S … more →
wrote 3 days ago: For awhile last year, I was posting a look back at past travels every Wednesday. Life got in the way … more →
wrote 1 month ago: I am on a roll with sharing our Greek holiday (just a few months late!) and by the end of the week I … more →
wrote 2 months ago: I mentioned in my previous post that Monemvasia has rather a few cats. I wasn’t kidding. It se … more →
wrote 2 months ago: A selection of roads well travelled for this weeks’ travel theme. I snapped this wibbly, wobbl … more →
wrote 2 months ago: This was the view we awoke to in the morning – a giant hunk of rock looming out of the deep bl … more →
wrote 3 months ago: As it turned out, getting to Monemvasia from Nafplio wasn’t entirely straightforward. There ar … more →
wrote 6 months ago: Monemvasia is a town and a municipality in Laconia, Greece. The town is located on a small peninsula … more →
wrote 7 months ago: Paddy with Goat! Photo by Joan Leigh Fermor, from the Trustees of the National Library of Scotland I … more →
wrote 8 months ago: We organised a bike march in Lakonia region of Greece in support of this cause. The organising bodie … more →
wrote 8 months ago: Drinking Corinthian Sun (A poem by Odysseas Elytis) Translated by Jeffrey Carson and Nikos Sarris … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Roughly 90 minutes west of Monemvasia, along the northwest coast of the Laconian Bay, lies the port … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Saturday morning in Monemvasia was beautiful, we woke up briefly to my alarm clock at 5:45 am which … more →
wrote 1 year ago: When many years ago my husband and I visited the Cretan village of Mirtos we were at some stage acco … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Oceania Cruises yesterday christened the newest addition to its fleet of luxury cruise ships, the 1, … more →
wrote 1 year ago: This week, I would like to take the opportunity to write about some of the spectacular sites of medi … more →
wrote 1 year ago: If you read Part I of my Grecian adventures you know my family and I started our cruise in Athens an … more →