Summary
The best thing about visiting Greece mid-March is that you've basically got the whole place to yourself. Although swimming is still not advised if you don't want to end up with hypothermia. We spent a total of 17 days in Greece but still managed to drive 3000 km's. This being said, we still had plenty of time sitting by the beach enjoying the much warmer weather than we experienced in Italy. We also felt really welcome in Greece unlike Italy so that was also refreshing.

We started at the top on the border of Albania and then headed south toward Vicos Gorge - stunning. We'd planned to do some hiking there but the weather was both wet and windy, we even got caught out in a bit of a snow storm. So we decided to stick to the coast to avoid any further cold weather. We spent some time on Lefkas Island in the north west of the country. The whole coastline on this island was gorgeous and 2 beaches in particular were amazing, Kathmisa and Porto, both of which we basically had to ourselves. Porto is truly something else. We then followed the coast around for a few days, crossing the largest cable stay bridge in Europe to Corinth and then after a day or so ventured inland to Olympia and then also up into the hills to the temple of Apollo. From here we headed back to the coast and spent some time lazing around on some beaches. On one afternoon on the way down a hill, we stopped at a lookout. Jodi followed Brenden up onto the side of a ledge but missed the step, slipped and fell head first nearly knocking herself out. Thankfully she only ended up with an egg, bruise and a bit of scar behind her hair line, could have been a lot worse.

The following day we headed down to the bottom of Greece to what's know as the most southern point of mainland Europe. Amazing scenery here but it was bitterly cold as the wind was blowing it's ring out. We then headed north again and spent a night at Pavlopetri, on a beach next to the underwater sunken city. It was too cold to snorkel so instead we caught a fishing boat over to the island Elafonisos and spent a day sun baking on Simos beach and the one next to it, again both of which we had to ourselves. We then headed north into Athens for the whole of about 5 hours. The appeal of a capital city wasn't very high after having beach after beach to ourselves for the past week or so. But we did the Greek ruins that we suppose most tourists go to see and then high tailed it out of there. We did however on the way into Athens pass by the cruise liner that sunk a few years ago, that was unexpected.

Leaving Athens we headed up to Delphi, the scenery here was amazing. The ruins and the museum were OK but where they're situated on the side of a mountain surrounded by other mountains was more impressive. Then the weather turned s*** as we headed north to Meteora unfortunately. Meteora is best know for it's monasteries which seem to defy the laws of physics as they are perched on top of large abnormal rock formations. We had a small break in the weather one morning to get some borderline satisfactory photos of Meteora and then it rained for the remainder of our time in Greece, all the way to the Turkey border. It was a pity, probably our number 1 & 2 must see's of Greece, Vikos and Meteora, and the weather was s***. Oh well, we're definitely going to come back to Greece in the summer when the population more than doubles in size and experience the tourist rush the country is renowned for.

Speedometer: 144,446 km's