It’s just a short 30-minute hop across from Naxos to the beautiful tiny islands of Koufonisia, the main island of Ano Koufonisi, the sparsley populated island of Kato Koufonisi and the mysterious archaeologically rich island of Keros. It’s our second visit here to see our dear friends N&H, spending four days unwinding on this unpretentious…
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Into The Heart Of The Cyclades – Naxos
“Where Zeus himself was said to live. Where his son Dionysus frolicked and presumably drank and threw orgies and danced all night…” – Anthony Bourdain Naxos, the largest of the Cyclades islands, is one of those places where you can just forget about the pressures of life, where time slows down and relaxation is the…
Athens – People, People, Everywhere
“The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognise you has a tourist.” Athens and, in particular, the Acropolis, is one of those ‘must see, bucket list’ icons. You feel you’ve seen it even without ever having been there. The Parthenon, with its instantly recognisable columns has to be one of the…
It’s Bath Time!
Bath has to be one of England’s most beautiful cities and perhaps one of its most unique, for this stunningly amazing place is not just famous for its ancient Roman Baths (Aquae Sulis), dating back to 60AD, but for its stunning Georgian Regency architecture and, of course a certain Jane Austen, who brought regency Bath…
Mells, Wells, Bells and Smells
If you wanted more picture postcard England, then Mells in Somerset is it. Straight out of ‘Midsomer Murders’, this impossibly bucolic village oozes the very essence of Englishness (without the murders of course). The lush hedgerows heave with earthy Cow Parsley, beaming Yellow Gorse, pale pink Dog Rose, towering Foxgloves and the heady early summer…
Koufonisi, A Dose of Paradise in the Windy Cyclades
Koufonisi is made up of two island gems, Pano (upper) and Kato (lower), both part of the Lesser Cyclades that include Irakleia, Schoinoussa, Donousa and Keros with Pano Koufonisi the most populated with some 400 or so souls – more in summer when tourists arrive to stay, no day trippers though, as these islands are…
Deiá and the Serra de Tramuntana
After a couple of days in sunny Palma we headed out of town, having been picked up by good friends to drive across the island and over the mountains to the magical hilltop village of Deiá where they’ve been living on and off for some 10 years. We’ve been looking forward to coming to Deiá…
Ciutat de Mallorca
I can’t believe we haven’t been to Mallorca before. After all the years of travelling, arriving in beautiful ancient Palma de Mallorca (Ciutat de Mallorca) is somewhat of a revelation. Capital of the Balearic Islands, Palma was first founded by the Romans in 123 B.C., but of course given its strategic position in the Mediterranean,…
Travels With My Ant 