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Travel Blogs from Karpathos Town (Pigadia)
The roving scapel
... is a freelance writer, her main subjects being travel and animal stories, whilst Alf is German and is, as he keeps reminding me, a photographer although he also does some writing.
Alf has, I learn, reluctantly assumed the mantle of the islands veterinary surgeon. There is a government vet here apparently but he is disinterested in treating animals, seemingly only concerned with his paperwork. Alf’s sister is a veterinarian in Germany which together ...
Karpathos
Dear Mr and Mrs Burger, We would like to apologise for 'borrowing' your reservation at the Mertonas suites on Karpathos Ýsland, you see we were on a late ferry and didn't realise there was a windsurfing tournament happening on the island......hence we were a bit desperate.....we didn't want to sleep on the beach. But you also sealed your fate by arrivýng so late as well, apparently we beat you by only thirty minutes, and the ...
Landing on Santorini in a propeller plane...
Well, that was interesting. Sort of like a roller coaster. The plane is small and has to battle the heat coming up from the desert when landing, so it is kind of like a 5 minute roller coaster! I am nowat the hotel, and looking out at the ancient volcano crater that makes the harbour here the most beautiful on earth, according to Conde Nast. It is pretty damn fine, I must say. Well, off to the black sand beach to find a ...
Athens
... of the tourist area. It's a wide, cobbled road with trees on the right as well as a few monuments, like the ampitheatre etc, the Acropolis up on the hill, and on the left really expensive looking apartments, with the entry lobbies decorated in magnificent style in some of them. It's meant to be a purely pedestrian walkway but quite a few vehicles sped past us as we walked down so it's best to be careful. The weather was nice, not too cool or ...
To Athens
... Weirdly, it looked like there was a magnetic attraction between clouds and the islands - each island was covered with clouds from top to tip but the sky over the sea was totally clear! It took eons to find a cab at Athens airport, until an airport attendant took pity on us and ushered us into 2 large cabs. The ride into the city was endless - over an hour and a half - and the city looked as land as vanilla. It turned out there was ...