Thursday 9th April and Kerrie’s dad, Darcy’s birthday – he would have been 97 today. It is also our first day on the bike for this trip. The speedo shows 2392km – I wonder what it will be when we are finished travelling on October. We will spend most of the day on the ferry to Crete for a few days. We woke to rain – not what bikers like to see. We waited around the hotel for a break in the rain before heading back to Piraeus to catch...

When we left Greece in 2011, as we sailed out of Patras on the ferry we said goodbye to Greece as we thought there was very little chance that we would have the opportunity to return. How wrong we were! We arrived in Athens after an 11 hour flight from Singapore to Istanbul and then another 1 1/2 hours to Athens. After collecting our baggage we caught the train from the airport into the city. Our stop - Syntagma - turned out to be about 100m from our hotel. A...

After returning to the 'Pommie Ducati', we set off for Patra and found the ferry terminal with ease. We were going to purchase what is called "air" seats. They are seats the same as you find in an aeroplane; they recline to a limited degree so that you can sleep. Given that the voyage was going to take over 12 hours over night, we decided to treat ourselves and upgrade to a two berth cabin with private facilities. The cost of the cabin was 188 Euro (about $250) r...

Sunday 10.04.2011 – We headed off to Olympia which is only 21 km east of Pyrgos and parked the bike in the main street of the village and decided to have some breaky before we hit the archeological site for a look see. We ordered what we thought was a toasted ham and cheese sandwich only to discover we were served a large bowl of yogurt and honey. Never mind, it was delicious and better for us anyway! We then bumped into a group of Australians who were on...

Saturday 09.04.2011 - After a map recon we decided to follow the coast north as it looked like it paralleled the ocean for a good deal and also took in some interesting mountain roads – good stuff - twistys and turneys - a biker's delight! The scenery on the road was just magnificent! We ran out of superlatives to describe it. We travelled east from Gythio to a small village called Acropoli and then followed the coast north to a large town called Kalamata. ...