Yassas! Well we've made yet another plan change, Instead of going to Igoumenitsa we've just found we can get an overnight ferry from patras to Corfu, so this aves time, a hotel and stress so we dive straight on & roll into bed absolutely knackered. Lorraine has Marks 'Flu and is laid low. Ferry docks at Corfu at 7am. Lorraine feels too unwell to cart her backpack around Corfu town so we check the luggage and take a lookaround. After a chat with an Irish-Corfun...

Yassas!! and Kalo Pachka (Happy Easter) It Greek Orthodox Easter here which is on par with our Christmas so all buzzing. I\'ll back track a bit \'cos we\'ve been covering a lot of miles. We had a VERU early start on weds 19th to get the 6:30 am (!) bus to Kalamata. Sat in the villagesqaure in the dark watching the place slowly creep into life. Still very warm even at this time of day. The bus rolls in on time and we head off, all the streets in the villages ar...

Yassas! Puff pant!...cor this is hard for such a small rodent... got to do this quick as we're waiting for a train... Well we darted through Kalamata (Where the olives come from, not the cheese worst luck!) and hit the bus timing just right and headed down to Koroni which is on the most Westerly of the three fingers of the Pelopennese. The scenery on this leg of the Pelopennese is just stunning, the most beautiful yet (We say this every day!) Each arm has i...

Yassas! el Rodente back on the road.... We roll into the beautifull Kardomilli on Thursday 13th. As we arrive & jump off the bus, we see Roy and Dorathy who are getting on! small world, we have a second to exchange greetings & they say 'go to Stellas!' We follow their quickly pointed directions and a few yard along we are accosted by a Greek lady sayings 'Rooooms?" we say we're Ok, we're going to Stallas...she says Yassas! I'm Stella!. We head off through a...

Hi all, more ramblings from el Rodente.....So, we docked in githio and were able to get a bust straight away to areopolis, The old capital of this prefecture, but still a small place. we rolled up at about 6ish and were looking for a place recommended to us as being a bit quirky. Tsimova rooms in a mani tower under a church (of course with associated bells!) this was a mad place, outside the door was a field gun, and I mean a big one! The Manians are famed for m...