January 2025 – Athens, Crete, and Paphos
To start, Karyo and I wish you all a (very) belated Happy New Year. Thank you for your continued support in reading our ramblings. Have you made any New Year's…
November 2024 – Corfu
Winter 2023/24 =🥶 After enduring last years miserable, cold, wet, winter in the UK, we had promised ourselves that would be our final UK winter and hoped to spend all…
November 2022- Goodbye Greece, Hello New Zealand!
After waving goodbye to Karyo's mum we still had a week left in Athens before it was time to wave goodbye to Greece and say Hello to New Zealand. As…
October 2022 – Goodbye Brighton, Hello Greece
Me, Karyo's mum and Karyo October was a bit of a whirlwind for us. Our final house sit in Brighton did not come to an end until October 18th. We…
December 2020 (3) – Goodbye Greece – Hello Italy
We have really enjoyed our time in Greece. When we arrived, back in September our plan was to stay for one month then move on. However, after our initial month…
December 2020 (2) – Why you should always follow the lockdown rules in Greece
The lockdown restrictions here in Greece are still quite strict. If you want to go out into the streets during the day you first need to get permission. You can…
December 2020 (1) – Ampelokipoi, Athens.
We have now been in Greece for over three months which is longer than we originally intended but Covid restrictions change so quickly country to country that it can be…
November 2020 (4) – The First Cemetery of Athens
An unexpected place of interest we came across on one of our walks was The first cemetery of Athens, again a very short walk from our apartment in the area…
November 2020 (3) – The Panathenaic Stadium
Firstly, we have to say a really heartfelt thank you for continuing to read our blog - we were notified this week that it has been viewed over 5000 times…
November 2020 (2) – The drama of the day!
The drama of the day The mystery of the missing throw! After being Airbnb hosts for so many years it's proving to be interesting, and occasionally slightly stressful living life…
November 2020 (1) Metz, Athens, Greece
Having already spent two months in Greece we had intended moving to pastures new in November but after much discussion, we eventually agreed to stay in Athens a little…
October 2020 (3) – Keeping fit – Alimos beach – Exarchia – Where next?
I've been asked whether or not our lifestyle has changed much since we left the UK. We are definitely loving moving into new accommodation every month, there is a real…
October 2020 (2)The Acropolis – Lycabettus Hill
The Acropolis Sightseeing When we decided to start our travels at this time we had a varied reaction from friends, family and fellow Airbnb hosts. Some thought it was a…
October 2020 (1) – Kypseli, Athens, Greece
The journey from Neo Peramos to Athens After spending most of September by the sea we decided, for a change, to spend October in a big City so headed 725…
September 2020 (2) – Nea Peramos, Greece
There was a distinct feeling of deja vu in the air on Friday 4th September when we woke just before our alarm went off at 3 am ( how…