Thursday, 5th September 2013. Meteora Monasteries We arrived back after (for once) a perfectly timed journey - plane, bus, coach, hire car to boat. All by the civilised hour of 5.30pm. The car (hired for 2 days) had a threefold purpose. Get us and our luggage from Volos Coach station to Pefkakia Boatyard, enable us to do a major shop at outlying supermarkets, and most importantly, give us a day inland to go and explore the amazing Meteora area. First, the driv...

20th July 2013 Skopelos A Week with Deck Fluff and Rubbish With photos mostly courtesy of S, A & R. Deck Fluff is obviously Sophie (well could hardly be Alastair now could it?). So named as, due to a recent boating accident (arm broken, plated and screwed together), she was only allowed sunbathing duty, helming and passage planning. And Alastair is Rubbish (self-proclaimed as he and rubbish signs seemed to have a magnetic attraction - see pic). But otherwi...