Theofilos Hotel Lesvos Petra

... went for lunch. Gett&#305;ng add&#305;cted to P&#305;da &#305;ts a turk&#305;sh style p&#305;zza a b&#305;t l&#305;ke a folded garl&#305;c bread w&#305;th cheese but no garl&#305;c &#305;ts tasty.<br><br>We dec&#305;ded to go to the beach as the weather &#305;s amaz&#305;ng and we do have a beach all to ourselves back at the goat shed so got tax&#305; back and ch&#305;lled and swam and had some turk&#305;sh tea both me and Ian can not stop dr ...

... h&#305;s Engl&#305;sh teacher who then spoke to Ian &#305;n really bad engl&#305;sh. Ian was say&#305;ng that he was go&#305;ng to do great as an engl&#305;sh teacher as at least he can actually speak engl&#305;sh lol. So we went all the way back to the tax&#305; place and p&#305;cked up the engl&#305;sh teacher and went off down some d&#305;rt tracks out of town. We got to th&#305;s place now how to desc&#305;be &#305;t best to look at the p&#305;cs but &#305;t was 4 huts on a b ...

... few days playing cards with our fellow guests - Paul, Sally, Sam and Eleanor - hi guys and hope he rest of your trip was less strenous than that climb to Ephesus!<br><br>The weather was truly toasty which made the fact that the sea was icy a rather unexpected surprise. We'd taken a boat trip to explore some of the small islands lying off the coast and at the first swim stop we were itching to cool off in the beautifully clear blue waters - and ...

... few gay ones for good measure. The boy scouts appear to have built a trail up to the castle ruins, where the christians-muslims-pagans all spent ...

According to the poet Homer Lesvos (aka Lesbos or Mytlini) was part of King Makaras Empire and many of the islands ancient cities were names after his daughters.<br><br>The people of Lesvos we forced into several wars as Persia, Athens and Sparta later ruled in succession. According to legend, when Lesvos finally succumbed to Athens, the Athenian council voted to castigate islanders ...

Blind luck lead us to Assos (it's in the back assos of nowhere! Boom boom), we'd been planning on travelling quite a bit further but for once our reading of scales on the map let us down and we decided to take our chances down a coast road. Thank God we did, the place is amazing, a ...

... description than one would ever imagine... an archeological site revealing 9 Troys, each layered on top of each other... stretching back over 5000 years to the bronze age... with Troy VII, the city of King Priam and his son's Paris and Hector and the lovely Helen... with it's destruction by Menelaus, King of Sparta... with Achilles at the forefront of the battle... All written by Homer and possibly lived by the character's that live immortally ...

We had an amazing last day with Sophie yesterday. An early start, and day at our beloved Agya Ergemenou (Green Beach), lunch on the beach, Greek coffees on the beach side terrace on our own...the children had a slushy on the beach while Sof and I chatted. We dropped her off in Mitilini Town at 4:30pm, then did a bit of food dhopping at the "big" Lidl store, bought some fresh mozzarella to make pizza when Daan arrives ...

... in the sea! We bought a parasol and 2 reclining beach chairs, because the chairs on the beach are 5Euros. My time is up, the children want to go home. Oh, there are fig trees everywhere!...and pomegranite, and lime, and olive and almond trees! We stop, nad Sophie and Mack pick fresh figs during our drives! Aparently, the owners of the restaurant have sent figs and watermelon for the children. We are in paradise! Love to all, Mylene, the children and Sophie.

... hernede, hehe forandring fryder. Tja, sidst hvor jeg skrev var det jo ved at vaere lufthavnsdag, og den gik okay, bortset fra af en af vores busser var brudt sammen!! Saa det maatte lige taenkes hurtigt og vaeres lidt alternativ. men satser paa at vi har alle de busser vi skal bruge paa soendag. I onsdags var det oe-rundtur, som jeg er ved at vaere rigtig rigtig glad for, syntes det er fedt at kunne fortaelle gaesterne saa meget, og ...