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Day 22: You know how we were taking a blase attitude to booking ahead? Well, that came to a crashing stop when we found that tickets for our preferred ferry to Santorini - and all other ferries on that day - were sold out.
We’re now on the way, one day later than originally planned, to […]

crowd-pleasing Kecak dance in which the entire ensemble including dance performers and the orchestra joined to produce a mesmerising display of chanting and rhythmic movement.

You couldn’t quibble with the location, right in the heart of the Plaka within 5 minutes walk from the Acropolis. We were probably lucky not to be in the dorm in Room 38, down a further two sets of stairs in an airless basement room, the door of which a former visitor had wryly marked “Alien Workshop”.

Day 15: No great surprises here, but driving in Athens was possibly one of the most difficult driving experiences in my life!
It wasn’t so much the fact that traffic drifts from lane to lane (I could handle that), but the complete lack of signposted directions out of the city.
One wrong turn - and this […]

Highlight was the Temple of Hephaestus, a beautifully-preserved structure with 34 Doric columns built in the 5th century BC. We also dropped into the Keramikos cemetery,

I took this incredible photo looking north-east while sitting beneath the Gate of Athens Archegtis at the Roman Agora in Athens.

Hill of the Pnyx, the meeting place of Athens’ Democratic Assembly in the 5th century BC, overlooking the Acropolis in Athens

guards at the Acropolis had gone out on strike. Tempers were flaring, with taxi drivers abusing each other, restauaranteurs