Ah Nafplio.....what can I say........I love the place. I actually have been there before, many years ago, but I had no hesitation in agreeing to add it to an itinerary again. Other than Nafplio (and Athens of course) the only other place on this trip I've been to previously will be Kastraki. As that is where the magical monasteries of Meteora are you can understand I am actually counting the days down to getting there again as it is such a special and wonderf...

The flight to Athens was of the "through the night" variety so we had already had a full day on the run before we left London as we'd been leaving Broadway, visiting Blenheim Palace, dropping the car off at Oxford etc then getting to the airport for our flight which arrived in Athens 4am local time. It was crazy in one sense and we were pretty tired and wiped out by the time we arrived in Athens but it had actually been thought out......This way we were picki...