Kristen and I had to say goodbye to Julie today. She is to fly back to the UK meanwhile Kristen and I have to do our complicated trip from Greece to Croatia. For anyone who has done this, you will understand. These two countries are physically so close to each other but it is difficult to get from here to there. I have heard of people going overland (ie through Macedonia/Serbia or Montenegro/Albania). Each overland route has issues (ie political unstability, issu...

Delos was on the agenda today. Delos is a little uninhabited island SW of Mykonos and takes about 30 mins on the boat to get to. Delos was sacred as it was the birthplace if Apollo and lends its position as the sacred centre to the name of the group of islands (the Cyclades, as they form a loose circle around Delos). Delos is covered in the ruins of ancient Greece and some additions added by the Romans in later times. You can wander around the island through the ...

Our introduction to Mykonos was, frankly, not great. Getting from the ferry terminal to our hotel was difficult. Mostly because the buses are inconsistent, hard to find and dont appear to allow luggage abd because there is a severe shortage of taxis. An hour and a half later after exhausting many possibilities and spending a kings ranson on telephone calls we got a taxi. Luckily our hotel is beautiful. And has a pool. The rest of the day was spent unwinding by ...

Meet the back of Pedro's head (for some reason I think of my donkey as Mexican-must be the bright colours he was wearing). Pedro assisted me in getting from the port of Thirissa to the top. It's a bloody steep climb and without his help I may not have made it to the top, plus I wanted to ride a donkey at some point. The reason why I was so tired is that I had just hiked to the top of the volcano in the centre of Santorini and swam to the hot springs from the boa...

After a leisurely morning of coffee, toast and lying in the sun we prepared ourselves for a trip to Akrotiri. Our accommodation organises a trip to the ancient village. I previously stuffed up the dates of the eruption-they should be about 2400 years BC (ie over 4000 years ago) when the big eruption took place.this was when this village was covered in a pyrocrastic flow. Our driver took us south and stopped briefly at a lookout to explain the different islands-...