After staying in the little town of Mystras, we headed to Pylos, another town on the sea. We stayed in another hotel there, and on the first night we went out for a nice meal at a restaurant on the harbour, but it poured down with rain so we had to sit under a canopy,…

Wearing: Bershka strapless top, Florida check shorts, crazy sandals! The above photos are amongst the only ones I got in Messene, and they’re taken at the gate/wall that we got to clamber all over! The reason they’re the only ones I got there are because after we’d finished looking at the gate and climbing the…

So we’re now embarking onto the Peloponnese part of my epic Greek journey. In the last post we’d just arrived in Nauplio, then that night we had a walking tour of the town itself, which was a really lovely little place with a very Italian atmosphere, with small streets, little shops and lovely restaurants with…

Back to Greece again! The above photos are from Sounion, another really really pretty place we went to. It was right on this cliff edge looking down over the sea and has stood like this for so long, it was amazing =) And of course we couldn’t resist the cliff edge photos haha!! Here I’m…

Our first trip out of the city of Athens was about 6 days into our trip if I remember rightly, and I think most of you know how I don’t get on well with cities..and roads…and cars…and buses…and pretty much everything to do with cities except shops. So basically I was very excited about this…

As you probably all know by now, I spend the last weeks of August and the start of September in Greece on a sort of study trip: an archaeology and topography undergraduate course hosted by the BSA (British School at Athens). I was super excited when I found out I’d managed to get a place…