Category Archives: Odyssey #2 2014: Cycling in Europe

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 →

NORTHERN KYTHERA The north of Kythera holds as many tales as the central and southern regions and this post tells a few of those stories. My first story relates to the ruined fortress of Paleochora, the island’s Byzantine capital. The … Continue reading →

CENTRAL KYTHERA. In the previous posting I wrote about the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (the Madonna of the Myrtle) and how a shepherd found it under a Myrtle tree. The tree was near where the Myrtidiotissa (‘of the … Continue reading →

SOUTHERN KYTHERA Kythera is one of 1400 islands belonging to Greece, 169 are inhabited. Kythera with a population hovering around 3300 is in the Ionian Group. Readers of this blog know we were not attracted to Kythera because of a … Continue reading →

WHY KYTHERA? When Bev and I returned to Australia from our 1972/73 jaunt through Europe and the Middle East we moved to the small town of Bingara on the Gwydir River in northwest NSW to live. Bev took a teaching … Continue reading →

FRED & BEV’S 2014 ODYSSEY PART 2 ATHENS, ACROPOLIS, PARTHENON AND THE GODS OF GREECE ATHENS FROM 17th MARCH TO 25TH MARCH 2014 The name Acropolis was derived from the Greek Akro, high or extreme/extremity or edge, and Polis, city, … Continue reading →

GRAFFITI OF SYDNEY and ATHENS. It was intended to make Athens the subject of our first post  for our forthcoming Odyssey Part 2 but after visiting the CBD of Sydney before we left Australia I just had to write.  The inspiration … Continue reading →