Corfu Chandris Hotel Dassia

... and the close confines of living in a big car we head off to New Zealand for 5 weeks (in another camper van). Next destination is Fiji for 2 weeks as we'll need a holiday by then, and in then onto the Cook Islands. Final destination is New York but not before a 3 week road trip in California to wrestle bears in Yosemite (Bill) and drink wine in Napa Valley (Katie)

... br><br>If it wasn&#8217;t for Nico, the night at the tavern would have been awful. I always get stressed when I go to taverns and I am trapped there until the rest of the choir decides to leave. I am a very independent person and I cannot stand other people deciding on when we leave or do anything.<br><br>Unfortunately, I don&#8217;t know for what reason, nearly everyone in the room were smoking. The ...

... second major port of Kefalonia connecting it with Italy and one of the most important touristic sea resorts.<br><br><br><br>The surrounding area contains springs with large quantities of fresh water flowing all year round, is densely-vegetated and presents many geological phonomena (underground lakes, caves and precipieces).<br><br><br><br>Apart from the Lake of Melissani and the cave of Drogarati, the famous caves of ...

Isn't that funny? I love sun, heat, swimming-pool, seaside, but I got bored in such conditions on Zakynthos. I thought as if I was in a cage. Touristic zone, small Porta Koukla, near Laganas - was too small for the city dweller like me. One restaurant and two shops when I could pay with credit cards. Is it EU at all? With such a huge touristic demand and therfore experience they didn't think much of the facilities.

Lovely villa overlookng the sea. There was a British family renting the next door villa. The family name was "Drinkwater" and they all had names beginning with "J". I think the father was John and he had four daughters - Jane, Joanne, Juliet and Jessanda. Juliet broke every Greek heart at the local hotel resort. "Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel" was in the charts and all the Greek boys (and not a few tourist boys) sang it to her.

... proximity of San Marino on my map as I flipped it over, riding across one of the fold lines. Had to ºhave itº. Iºm not sure about the height of this city, but it was another huge effort to get the bike up there, it seemed about half the height of my St Gotthards Pass climb. I got to the top at around 5pm and was rewarded with views of a barely visible coast line out on the horizon. It was mind blowing to look back and see how far youºve travelled in a day, and a little ...

... jerkingly funny folk<br>songs, old classics interpreted in a jazz style ('how much, yeah how much, yeah baby how much, is that doggy in the window?') and many more. The event is held on a beachside patio with the dinghy and catamaran halyards rattling gently in the background - and they even managed to follow it up the next week with a set that included a two-sax strolling version of 'The Pink Panther' as well as many other splendid toons. <br><br>Back to the ...

... a bit lucky by hitting Ionian Regatta week here, so one of the holiday companies was short handed and took us on for work experience as we are known to them as repeat offender holidaymakers. Had a whale of a time; got asked to do beginner catamaran instruction (fortunately we had been forewarned and had swotted up) so there I was teaching a friendly Belgian couple how to tack and gybe two hulls at once. They speak good English and wanted to learn ...

... upwind.<br><br>As this is supposed to be a travel journal, it is just as well we had a day out in a hire car, seeing some of the rest of Lefkada for the first time in our 15 weeks spent in Vassiliki. (shocking!) The island is stunningly scenic and also still quite traditional, complete with donkeys, potholed roads, inaccurate maps and little ladies in black costumes with bustles. First stop was the West coast, to ...

... on the plane out and the two hour time change meant by the end of the first sailing day we were dead on our feet, but matters have improved and we're ready for next week's heavy schedule. Hopefully by the time of the next update we will have our tickets, with powerboat and first aid courses to do to complete the qualfication.our friends in Vassiliki (both holiday staff and locals) haven't forgotten us and we're having a wonderful time. Huge thank yous as ever to all our friends ...