Nafplio Beach Seniors Shivering Club. It only takes a hint of sunshine for the seniors to meet at Nafplio’s little town beach. Some spend an age stretching their wrinkly limbs in preparation for the plunge, while others shed layers as they walk and carry on into the deep. They come and go throughout the morning. […]

Symposium. Minty and I spent most of our working lives in marketing roles with banks, insurers and hotels. For us a symposium was something that cost you a fortune to attend and where you listened to over inflated egos quoting wildly exaggerated data regarding their latest fancy pants campaigns. To read the Greek definition of […]

Waking in the shadow of the ancients. For New Year’s Day we woke in a municipal car park that could be anywhere – except that we know what’s over the hill. A mere 100 metres away lie the extensive ruins of ancient Corinth.  Corinth was founded around 700BC and was a large city of 90,000 […]

A short post from a long week. We took fewer photos this week than we usually take in a day. Normal service will resume in the New Year! What happened was… There can be no doubt that people with a plan get more done. But people with a plan are more likely to see the […]

Makrinitsa. Last week we left you up a hill, we’d parked between Makrinitsa and Portaria. Both beautiful tourist trap villages around 700m above the city of Volos. Beautiful yes, but we were stressed. We’d had too many “manoeuvring ArchieVan in a space where a Smart car would be cramped” moments. In compensation. We’d had the […]

Philogrobolised on Sarti Beach. Last week we made Sarti after searching for anything open that would fuel our Friday night. Sarti proved just the ticket. A small town with a great beach. And most importantly, a year round population. There were a few grills open, a pizza place, coffee shops, in fact more than we’ve […]