Thimaras Traditional Residences
Travel Blogs from Spetses
Day Cruise: Idra - 1st Stop
... The weather continues to be a bit cold, but at least it stopped raining. On each floor they had servers that came to us to bring us drinks and food. It was quite nice! CJ was dying for a coffee!! We have to say, the coffee here is expensive, considering that many times they give you instant coffee! It's about 3 Euros for a coffee which is either instant or filtered. For reference, the Euro ...
The Mountain and the Sea
If you are wondering, I got the title for this entry from a favorite song of mine by Ingrid Michaelson called, you guessed it, The Mountain and the Sea. Click here if you want to hear it. Otherwise, keep reading to hear about my adventures in Aegina, Sounio, and Hydra.
Aegina
It has been a while since I last wrote on here, so travel back in time with me to the weekend ...
Athens
On my God. We wake up at 9.30 and hardly have any time to go into Athens. Rushed ashore without even a cuppa and had a coffee in a cafe before getting the hop on hop off to the city. Unfortunately the central city is closed today because of Angela Merkels visit and with riots expected. (And which did happen shortly after we ...
Spetses
... to swim, read on the beach, then around 4 pm, went to look around for a place to rent scooter. After with some negotiation, we got the deal of reduced price and off we went to the fuel station first. Fuel 3 Eruo worth benzine and then off we went on the Round Tour de Spetses. The Island is mostly populated on the North Side, while on the South Side is very rocky, the landfill is there, some very expansive villas with helipads (!!) and with some smaller beaches. The road ...
Again wandering streets and talking to people
... nice. Lots more children too but today was there last day of school. We also picked up a few other things on our adventure to port today like a highlighter, a book about Hydra, and a gold chain for the Chief. A pretty good haul for a day's work.
We thought we might see a bit of rain. The clouds moved in around 4:00 and it was overcast.
But no rain. Everything is very dry here. The "water" boat came in to port again this morning. ...