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Unlike poor old Odysseus I didn’t have to spend seven years floating around the Agean being seduced by witches and fighting the cyclops in order to get home. Neither did I return to a house full of suitors – I brought my wife with me. Mind you the return trip seemed to take an interminable [...]

It was quite sad to say goodbye to Santorini having called it home for the past 8 days. The island really grows on you. Apart from the language barrier we almost felt like locals and looked down our noses at recent arrivals and regular tourists, especially those off cruise ships – the ancient ruins as [...]

What a corker our last day in Santorini has turned out to be. We awoke to leaden skies and even the ever-blue waters of the Caldera appeared somewhat grey.

Wrapped in layers of clothes we mounted Quadropolous Motorcycladaes our faithful transport and headed down the hill to Thera to buy some souvenirs and look at the [...]

The curtailment of our external activities by the weather has allowed me the opportunity to explore European free to air satelite television.

There are at least 25 satelites that the receiver in our room can access and that makes for at least 500 viewable channels not to mention the thousands of others that require a subscription [...]

I can’t say that we slept that well last night despite our beautiful surroundings. Not long after we went to bed the wind which had been gusting all evening began to really scream.

The windows and doors began to shake and we could hear tables and chairs shifting outside. If anything the wind continued to intensify [...]

Santorini is renowned for its sunsets. This evening’s was, perhaps the best of those we have seen so far, not least because we watched it from the terrace if our new hotel in Imoglivi.

Our new hotel, Sunny Villas, despite sounding like a nursing home is quite lovely. It sits on the edge of the cliff, [...]

The island lisfestyle is certainly very relaxing, if a little expensive.

We have been zooming around on our little 50 cc ATV and having death defying experiences while visiting some of the beauty spots on the island. Yesterday was Greek Orthodox Easter and all around the island people were letting off fire crackers and cooking whole [...]

Wireless internet hotspots don’t quite seem to have made it to the Cycladaes (or the motor-cyladaes as I have rechristened them on account of the scooters and motorbikes that are ubiquitous here more below). I guess that thousands of years of civilisation can only do so much. Posts will necessarily be brief and infrequent.

We arrived [...]