We started in Greece

For many years Pauline and I have had a dream of travelling to many places we have heard of but not visited. It was in 2006 on the occasion of our Ruby Wedding that we made a start. Each year we had chosen a single destination for a holiday. It was usually a case of travelling as far as Anghistri, a Greek island, just 20 miles from Athens in the Saronic Gulf.

In 2006 we thought we might like to visit other islands in Greece whilst out there on holiday. We booked in at the Boulas Hotel in Anghistri for a whole month. I knew I would become "stir crazy" simply staying there so we took the ferry to the nearby island of Aegina and bought two tickets to the island of Poros about 2 hours sail from there. On arrival we found a "tourist office" which was actually the local office of a Scandinavian tour company. As luck would have it they were able to provide three nights in a lovely hotel in Poros.

During our stay there we booked two seats on a Mini Classical Tour which took us over to the Peloponnese and toured Epidavros Ancient Theatre, Naplion, former capital of Greece, Mycenae and Corinth. Eventually we returned to Anghistri and after a few more days we got two reservations on a flight to Crete. In Crete we took a taxi from Iraklion Airport to the resort village of Elounda where we managed to get a double room for 4 nights. We hired a car locally and toured this part of the island as well as taking a trip to Georgeopolis near Chania where we had stayed some fifteen years earlier.

Returning to Anghistri we continued our holiday there until it was time to come home. We met Greeks who reminded us of the father in the film, "My Big Fat Greek Wedding." They kept on explaining words we used by showing their Greek derivatives! We found good eating places and pleasant towns and villages wherever we went. This gave us a taste for more travel and two years later we had a month in Anghistri with a break in Rhodes for a week. But that is the subject of a further blog.