Showing posts with label Greek Islands. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Greek Islands. Show all posts

Tuesday, 16 August 2016

I'm Back!

Yes back from my travels.......six planes, seven countries and a ship!

I will explain over the next few posts, I still have two weeks holiday from school so I might just get some blog posts done in that time!
View from our apartment
First was a fantastic holiday in Kephalonia with Hubby.(I can cross it off my list!)
Foki Bay
It has been on my list of places to visit since 1994 when I read Captain Corelli's Mandolin. It did not disappoint.
Fiskardo
We stayed in the north of the island just up the hill from Fiskardo. This part of the island escaped destruction in the huge earthquake of 1953. As we had a hire car we managed to explore lots of the island, only really missing the very south coast.






We picked lemons from a tree in an abandoned garden, went on a rowing boat into a cave, fought big waves in Myrtos beach, ate many delicious meals al fresco, visited ruins of houses destroyed in the earthquakes, watched turtles in Argostoli bay, tickled lots of friendly feral cats, dreamed about buying and doing up an abandoned villa or two, had a scary drive up a road that looked like half of it had slipped down the steep hill on one side, went swimming in the warm pool at 8pm, listened to the cicadas, crawled along behind a herd of goats, and looked at the Ancient Acropolis of Same and the Roman cemetery in Fiskardo.
Myrtos Beach
Assos



Melissani cave


Foki Bay
Fiskardo

Serenaded while we eat



Ruins at Old Farsa

Farsa

















The Nahlin a 1930's luxury yacht


Bee hives everywhere
We climbed high above the clouds!
Butterflies everywhere too!


We had such a wonderful holiday (I could easily do a few posts about it I took so many photos but decided to go for it and just do one long one!) I was home three days before I went away on holiday with my mum.
I would love to return one day but as hubby says there are still many beautiful places to see so it may be a while before we go back.