Hotel Erika Alexandroúpolis

Our second day at Vampire Camping was spent on a trip to nearby Brasov. This is a historic walled city, surrounded, as always, by traffic and ugly buildings. Within the walls though we found a comparatively peaceful, almost cosmopolitan, centre with a relaxed and easy atmosphere. What a pleasant change to sit in a town square with a cup of coffee watching attractive men and women walk by, no stray dogs, very little litter ...

... boat - "Full Flight" - appeared next to us and, after the usual greetings etc Tony and Pat invited us over for a glass of wine or two. Slowly it dawned on us that we had met before, for about half and hour, on Sardinia -- small world innit? After emptying one another's drinks lockers and swapping loadsa books we parted company, them to the West and us to the East. Kavalla While in Thassos we took the ferry the 20 miles to the city of Kavalla on the mainland coast where we wanted to ...

Si ja n has tıngut prou i vols tornar cap a casa, segueıx amb la Nora. Ella i Moltavolta, capıtenajades per la Sara, arrıbada ex professo a Istambul, passaran pel Nord de la Grecıa contınental, per saltar d Igoumenıtsa a Ancona. Despres d una breu vısıta a la Toscana, agafareu el ferry a Genova per tornar al cap ı casal. Barcelona ...

... the tzaziki- so fresh and simple with its few ingredients of yoghurt, garlic, cucumber and olive oil. Then the chilled roasted eggplant salad. Then the massive block of local feta atop a mound of tomatoes, onions and cucumbers. The crusty bread perfect for plate scraping. And the entrees. Rack of lamb, perfectly tender pork chops, a Greek sausagey meat loaf, skewers of fire roasted beef and ...

... water, covered in sea shells, and we were the only people except for one person on a motorcycle. We splashed around for a while before walking home for dinner and nursing our sun burns and mosquito bites. Last night Georgia took me on her moped to Alexanderpoli to run errands and meet with some friends. During evening in the summer time they close the main road along the beach for foot traffic. It was a pleasant warm evening ...

Last chance to spend our Euros wýth our last nýght ýn Greece. Spellýng apart these computer keyboards are all Greek to me! ýts better ýf you close you eyes and try and type by memory. That dýdn't help eýther! Anyway we are campýng about 40 mýle from the Turkýsh boarder and hope to cross and fýnd the nearest campsýte.

... water and toilet paper, just ended up making a bigger mess. I will spare all of you the details of the next hour I spent trying to get a taxi, bus and then tram to the hostel where Bree and Katy were waiting. I managed to get on the bus and then off at the right stop but prior to getting off the bus the kind lady next to me warned me that I should not be alone so late at night (midnight by now) and the area I was being dropped at was similar to the Bronx ...

... this conflict. Examples: Turkish soldier picking up a wounded ANZAC and carrying him to the ANZAC trench, a Digger giving his water canteen to an injured Turkish soldier, a game of cricket on the battlefield, officers from either side having a cup of tea and a yarn, Turks and ANZACs exchanging tobacco for tobacco paper and vs (each side had only one of these, not the other, so the mutually exchange!!!), two ...

... the Australian Memorial is and Cunnock Bairn (sic) where the NZ memorial is. The landscape is amazing - Valleys leading into valleys into valleys, Cliffs, bluffs, tiny traverses, whatever you want to get you confused, it's there. The allied troops picked pretty much the worst place to land. It must have been hell! and to think my grandfather had been there 90 years ago ýs pretty soberýng. Genghis gave a short background on the area and what happened there ...