Athens, Pictures, Travel: Greece
The Markets of Monisteraki
Let’s leave Germany today, just for a little while. It’s Friday, Summer has handed over her evening domain to Autumn who prefers cold nights and feet, and things are very… Continue Reading
Browsing Category: Travel: Greece
Life in Kiel, Pictures, Travel + Life Abroad, Travel: Greece
A Little Villa
Every once in a while, SG or I will mention the words, with a curious mix of certainty and wistfulness, ‘…when we have our little villa on Santorini’. It is… Continue Reading
Going to Shine on Australia
The sun has set on Santorini 2012 and what a fortnight it was. There were donkey-rides and boat tours and (many) glasses of wine. Ancient ruins, traditional villages, the beach… Continue Reading
Dear Santorini Tourism …
If I could have five minutes of face time with the Santorini tourism powers that be, I would ask them but one thing. It would be, and this is as… Continue Reading
Getting Lost in Emporio
Emporio makes you work a little bit, like many of the old villages on the island. Firstly, you have to get past what you see when you go whizzing through… Continue Reading
Postcards from Oia
Snapshots of the island’s most photographed village. And I really do wish you were here …
Doors
A little village en route to the black sand beaches of the island’s south, Emporio is easy to miss. One can zoom through it without so much as a second… Continue Reading
Firsts & Favourites
Despite having been here several times before, often for months at a time, this time round I am still doing and seeing things for the first time. There are still… Continue Reading
Morning Light
We have been waking quite early on the island, why I don’t know. But it does mean we catch the morning light, which is so cool and white. Up here… Continue Reading
The Octopus
There was great excitement, down by the Akrotiri pier the other night. A cluster of sun burnished cousins stood at the end of the pier, shivering, their skinny arms wrapped… Continue Reading
Vlychada
This morning we took a quad bike out to my favourite beach on the island, Vlychada. It is bigger than Perissa and there aren’t as many tourists and only a… Continue Reading
It’s Good to be Back
It’s good to be back. It’s quieter this year, Greece’s situation stretching to include the country’s tourism cash cows, the beautiful islands. It’s too early to tell for sure, but… Continue Reading
Santorini 2012, Travel + Life Abroad
It’s time.
So as of 2.30am, Wednesday morning, I will be in a car, driving to Munich airport, to catch a plane to the island. And then it is two weeks of… Continue Reading
What This Santorini Summer Will Bring
Today I am taking you to Greece. It feels utterly perfect to write that because there is the warmest breeze drifting in through my window and the sunlight today is… Continue Reading
Travel + Life Abroad, Travel: Greece
Where Nothing Can Touch You
I am missing the island today. Not just its blue skies, the heat and clear, flat water – although I miss that too – but its island-ness. Its sense of… Continue Reading
Santorini Summer 2011, Travel + Life Abroad
Hotel Review: Astra Suites Santorini
High above the volcano that created Santorini as we know it today, gazing across the island’s magnificent caldera, is a little piece of heaven. Or, quite possibly, actual heaven. I’m… Continue Reading
Santorini Summer 2011, Travel + Life Abroad
So Long Summer …
The water today is so, so blue. And take-your-breath away cold. It’s the best send-off possible, next to a table full of taramosalata, tzatziki and saganaki. Which is why an… Continue Reading
Santorini Summer 2011, Travel + Life Abroad
A Few of my Favourite Things…
I WAS having a chat with a young man the other day and the conversation invariably strayed towards what to see on the island. I ran him through some general… Continue Reading
Santorini Summer 2011, Travel + Life Abroad
My Mt. Olympus
Every so often (and, probably more often than I am due) I am fortunate enough to experience some very beautiful things. This hotel, perched high above Santorini’s volcano and massive,… Continue Reading
Opinion, Santorini Summer 2011, Travel + Life Abroad
‘I’m Not Into Eating Shit.’
I happened upon a group of people last night, distingishable largely by their somewhat alarming hair and the distinct impression bathing had fallen by the wayside somewhere along the line. In one… Continue Reading