I was again awoken by an early morning wake up call and went off to breakfast and then got back on the bus. The bus had parked front to the kerb of the hotel and now had to reverse out almost putting its wheels over one of the many precipices. After the driver, Vasilis, had managed this feat, we all clapped and cheered. Then we were off, it was only a short ride but quite a way up on Mt Parnassus. We entered the site and went straight up to the sanctuary and sat ...

I was awoken at 6:30am by my early morning wake up call, no matter how many times that had happens on this trip, I was never prepared for it. I procrastinated about getting up for a while before packing my stuff up and putting my suitcase at the door and going to breakfast. I put my two Greek pots in my carry on bag and took that with me. I sat down to breakfast with an older couple who were very nice and were especially interested in why I had chosen to travel a...

Our next stop was going to be Mycenae, the palace of Agamemnon. This was one places that I had been specifically interested in visiting and was one of three Bronze Age sites that I had structured my trip around, the other two being Knossos in Crete and Troy in Turkey. Mycenae was quite a long drive from Epidorus and the scenery was amazing. Giant, rocky mountains rose from the most clear aqua green water I had ever seen; there were olive trees everywhere and smal...

I got up this morning and went down to the Mezzanine level of the hotel for breakfast, again as I sat there and ate I felt an overwhelming sense of loneliness.The fact that the breakfast was much like the ones we had been served on tour in Egypt didn't help matters either, it only reminded me of Ramez who my parents said I wouldn't give a second thought, but who I missed terribly.I ate my breakfast and then attempted to go and find a proper power adaptor, unfortu...

After Whitby we moved on to Ripon and we were head for another Abbey, Fountains Abbey to be specific.Now I'm a person of historical background and at this point I didn't really want to visit another Abbey, I wanted to visit castles, places where great men had fought and died.When we got there it was almost closing time and we only just got in.The grounds were deserted, as we walked down towards the Abbey I noticed a large impressive tower standing out from the gr...