Returning to Meteora......what a total joy.......I have not travelled extensively; "locally" I've been to New Zealand a couple of times and I've lived in New Guinea of course...As for overseas I've been to Singapore, Egypt, Italy, France and Ireland once each and the UK and Greece now twice.....so yes I am by no means a world weary traveller and perhaps therefore should hold judgement, but on this second visit to Meteora it has been confirmed as my fa...

(L) Another beautiful breakfast spread served by Marios and we were on our way to Kastraki by 9.15, quite an easy run again only taking just over 2 hours, starting with a lot of fog but the rest with great roads, lots of tunnels a toll or two and getting stuck behind a truck for nearly 20 kms down windy roads with crazy Greek drivers overtaking not only us but the truck around blind corners!! I waited patiently for a safest possible place to pass so maybe I'm...

We had specially requested a higher floor room in our Monodendri booking thinking a second floor room would give us even better views......which it did......but it was also yet more stairs so we got those thrown in as well....... Honestly we should all have calves of steel by the end of this trip! This is the first time we've all been in a room together but even though it was a two night stay there seemed to be plenty of room. It helped also that our bathroom...

We had quite an easy hop from Lefkada to Monodendri with only a petrol stop on the way. It's interesting at petrol stations here as, even in the bigger chain ones like BP etc, they have an attendant who comes out to do the work. We are so used to jumping out of the car to fill it up ourselves but here you wait and they do it for you - I guess it was like that in Australia back in the day but now driveway service places at home are few and far between......Her...

The trip to Lefkada from Kalavrita, where we had lunch, was pretty straightforward and simple. Liane is perfectly happy with the Greek-style driving by now and demonstrated this repeatedly on the motorway as she whizzed past traffic by crossing over to the wrong side of the road regardless of line markings. She really doesn't need the "stay to the right" calls anymore as it seems second nature to her but we keep it up anyway just in case. Though the trip was ...