So with an incredibly early start, as the ferry got in at 6:00, we hit the ground running after dropping our things off at Nick´s house. We planned to spend the next 4 days in Athens with Lisa and Nick before heading back to Spain. The top thing to see in Athens is the Acropolis so once breakfast was out of the way we drove downtown and started to explore. The entrance tickets into Acropolis are €20 each but you can purchase combination tickets that get you in...

We arrived in Crete late on the 21st of August in a town called Iraklion. We chose not to stay there but to hire a car a head west across the island. We booked the car from Caldera car hire and we arranged to pick it up from their downtown office. I´d seen that it was 8 minutes away from the port so thought that it was perfect. What I didn´t realise was, that it was an 8-minute drive away which was at least a twenty-minute walk with our suitcases. As we were wa...

Santorini was the island that I had most been looking forward to visiting. We booked a hotel in Thira which is one of the biggest towns on the island and in theory about a 15/20-minute journey to the port. When we first arrived we found our man waiting for us to take us to the hotel, however since he wasn´t only picking us up we had to wait for ages in the heat until the others arrived. When they eventually did, it turned out they were staying on the complete op...

Next stop - Naxos. After a few hours on the boat from Paros we found ourselves on a new island with new things to see and do. At first we thought our hotel was a fair distance from the port as the free minibus pick up seemed to take forever to get there, however, due to all the one way streets it turned out to be much closer. Many of the hotels offer this service if you let them know in advance. Because we had arrived by midday we had the rest of the day to ex...

It´s been many years since my last blog, but that does not mean that I haven´t been anywhere. In the past year alone I have been to Germany, Denmark and many little villages and cities in Spain. I´ve just been too busy or lazy to write about them. However, I´m going to try and blog this two-week Greek island hopping trip. With our bags backed and passports in hand we left Campello and set off for the train station. Our flight to Athens was leaving from Barce...