Monthly Archives: June 2014

OUR SWISS BICYCLING MISSION. TOURING SWITZERLAND BY BIKE, TRAIN, BUS and BOAT. We flew from Thessaloniki to Zurich in early April. Our destination was a small village north west of Zurich where our bike-riding friends, Rolf and Erika, live. Rolf … Continue reading →

Central and Eastern Macedonia, Greece. (Following on from Halkidiki) The previous post left us pondering the Holy Mount Athos republics. The traffic in Kavala was horrendous so we immediately did a u-turn and headed for the bush, finding ourselves in … Continue reading →

HALKIDIKI REGION, GREECE  Our stay in Greece was fast coming to an end but because it was a tad cold still in central Europe (the next phase of our journey) we decided to hire a car and undertake a camping … Continue reading →

THESSALONIKI  From Athens we caught a train to Thessaloniki. Travel forums on the net suggested that a bus was a better option but talking to the locals they suggested a train was preferable because you could move about and there … Continue reading →

FROM KYTHERA, A RETURN TO ATHENS Bev and I bade Kythera farewell from the port at Diakofti aboard the vehicular ferry Bitsentzos Kornaros. The Kornaros, coming from Crete, was running late and when I enquired about why it was late, … Continue reading →