Due to cost and times of flights to Tallinn, we were forced to begin our latest trip away with a night in London. We did our best to make it feel like a part of our holiday rather than an extended lay-over: walking around as much as we could during the afternoon and catching a show in the West End (39 Steps - funny and good value for money as we got dinner from Gourmet Burger Kitchen included in the deal we scooped from lastminute.com). But London also did it's...

I'll get the chronology out of the way first… feel free to skip it, or come back to it later to make sense of the photos and/or the commentary later on: Saturday 13 September: Flew from Edinburgh to Amsterdam to Athens. Arrived around 1am… Sunday: stayed at the airport till 4:30am then caught the bus to Piraeus and boarded the 6am Ferry to Naxos. Arrived in Naxos township on Naxos Island around lunchtime. Slept. Went to the beach. Slept. Monday: caug...

For four days (5-8 July), Peter, Sina, Marisa and I rented a car and drove around Scotland. Here's a summary: On the Saturday we went to a Highland Games at Invergarry, which is about 20 mins south of the southern tip of Loch Ness. When we arrived, it wasn't quite what we imagined.No bleachers or permanent running track. No paved car park. Only a couple of hundred people. But when we got amongst it, the games had everything we were after and a few we didn't...

I haven't started a blog entry with a song lyric for a while, but the only song I can think of off the top of my head that mentions Turkey is John Lennon's 'Cold Turkey'. There were no drug addicts amongst our travelling party (though one of our taxi drivers was open about his love of hashish and stronger) - - and it certainly wasn't cold, the temperatures hanging in the mid 30's most days. Google informs me there is a song called 'Cliffs of Gallipoli' by a Swe...

On our first night in Paris, I turned to Marisa and said, "It just feels like another big European city." We had arrived at Charles de Gaulle airport before six pm but didn't make it to our hotel by the Bastille until after seven, where we met up with Peter and Sina.They'd been in Paris since lunch time. We found a place for dinner nearby and fumbled our way through ordering (even more complicated when you have two vegetarians) and paying.We walked ar...