Disco music thumps, playing early 80's tunes, and gentle waves lap the sandy shore on a totally deserted beach. Well not quite deserted – a bored security guard eyes the beach up and down. Our group of 27 enjoyed having the place to ourselves. There seems to be no other guests in this beach front holiday accommodation. The "resort" served us a meal of salad, chicken breast and mashed potato then set the disco music free on us. Whilst it was a minor disa...

We've started a new adventure. We have joined a tour run by Busabout that will see us travel through some Eastern European countries in the company of other like minded independent travellers. Travel is by bus and ferry with a guide. Our 26 lively bunch of fellow travellers come from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, USA, UK, Scotland and South Africa.We left behind the hookers, smog and jammed packed streets of Athens and soon our bus was heading West then Nor...

"You just have to see the changing of the guard in Athens" our friend Anna had said in Mykonos. “Why, what is special about it?” I asked. “You will see!” she said.Athenians have Attiitude with a capital A and never is it more evident as in the changing of the guard. Just check out the pics! The guards dressed in an amazing uniform, strut, march, scrape and kick in a bizarre choreography and it happens every hour. We are told that these gua...

 After a night at a travellers style motel at Stilida, and a sighting of Mt. Olympus the highest mountain in Greece, we are now in Athens and finding it very "down at heel" with frantic traffic and unhappy people. We found one last UNESCO monastery, the 11th Century Monastery of Daphni, in the outskirts of the city, but were disappointed to find that it is under massive renovation and the mosaics for which it is famous could not be viewed. They did however have ...

"Avan, I don't think WE are going to the Monasteries of Mount Athos - no women are allowed!"I had borrowed a more comprehensive guide book (Fodders) from our Texan friends at Meteora, which (bless their hearts) they gave to us to keep when we parted company, and it gave information that we had not known before, that the whole peninsula where the Mt. Athos monasteries are located, is off limits to women. "Well you will have to go on your own", I said, but then...