A full corporate day trip towards the Plaka with Sensei Frank Burlingham as tour guide - well kind of. The morning was very warm so the first port of call after 15 minutes walk was a lovely bar which had enough seating for the entire entourage. The ladies had already scoped out the orange juice and coffee on a separate trip. After partaking the refreshments, we walked around the Plaka dressed in our grey corporate t-shirts. A day for fun and laughter, tr...

Breakfast as usual on the balcony, everyone looking forward to the day's events. Jackie, Lola and Rose consulted with the Hotel reception staff as to recommendations for a traditional Greek entertainment evening. This was all booked and sorted, no hassle. Training again today, so off the group went back to the Dojo. Once training had finished and as is customary a few gifts were presented to the host Sensei from the visiting Sensei. Shane presented Babis w...

We all met at 8.30am on the balcony for breakfast and to discuss the previous night's events. General opinion, we are not amused. All looking forward to the day's training expect the 3 amigos who all were a little worse for wear. Sadly to their detriment, Shane had already noticed and guess who the first 3 Uke's were - oops a daisy, who's the big boys now? Training to begin at 11am, so the group training got themselves ready and headed off for the metro. Whe...

A very warm and sunny welcome to Athens. We were met by our coach driver at the airport and taken to the coach for the 45 minute onward journey to the hotel. Once the suitcases were stored on board we asked the driver if he would take a group photo. His initial response was that we only had a 5 minute parking limit left and didn't think we would have enough time to take photos. We did have a photo taken as we weren't getting on the coach until we did - very a...