Day 5 Leaving One of the biggest bummers of travelling is, well, the travelling. I mean the mucking around in actually getting to the place you want to go to. We were smart/lucky that on this short trip, rather than burning a day at each end, we had early flights to get to Greece and […]
Day 4 Coasting It was time to hit the Corinthian coast. As is the way, it is rare for us to travel from A to B directly, usually stopping off at X, Y or Z along the way. Today we stopped off at Desfina before getting to the coast. The Greek villages that we had
Yoni and Mark awoke in quite distressing fashion, with many small but angry looking red bites all over their arms and upper body. It appears that their beds had bedbugs. Mark’s was much worse than Yoni’s and he insisted on moving rooms. The bites didn’t destroy their holiday, but it’s definitely not pleasant to wake
Yoni, our Grand Pubah, had a change of plans in the morning, deciding that an hour and a half’s journey to our first stop was too far, especially since we had a specific time booked for George our guide for the tour of Delphi. I applaud his flexibility. So we had an earlier than planned
A Trip to Greece – First Time For Everything Arrival I don’t really think that anyone would accuse us more of the the same when we go on overseas trips together, with a recent Puglia road trip, Lake Maggiore with the wives, trekking in Japan, Bruce in Barca and the granddaddy of all trips, The
Mark arrived late the previous night after a conference in Riga, so now the gang of four was complete. After a quick cortana and good morning to Ernesto, we were off to an early morning visit to the La Ribera market, the largest covered market in Europe. The market’s website says it opens at 8.30.
Day 1 – Bilbao I don’t want to sound like a spoilt little boy, but what happened to the good old days when you buy a plane ticket, go to the check-in counter, board, land and 30 minutes after deplaning you’re in whatever location you were flying to? Queues, security, more security, more queues, masks,
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Part 3: POST WEDDING I’m going to briefly go back to Hollywood comparisons. What the wedding lacked in contrived, scripted drama was made up for with morning after hangovers that have been the staple of Hollywood comedies since the invention of the motion picture. Some of us left dinners in places other than our stomachs,
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In the lead-up to the wedding I had trouble imagining it. We’ve all been to weddings before but always as a guest. This was different. I couldn’t imagine what it was going to be like, being the “host”, in the wedding entourage. It was just totally foreign to me. I guess when no. 2 comes
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