Finding Venice in Greece: Chania and Rethymno, Crete.
Way back in May/June 2022 we were in Crete. Don’s notes from May 29th in Athens: a day where neither …
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Three Christmases and a Reunion
In Canberra from 2 Dec 2022 to 15 Feb 2023. It’s been eight years since we’ve all been together. Eight …
Nails On The Soles Of Their Shoes – the iconic and the mundane in Athens.
Someone pushes Don from behind, determined to get past him to the barricade; Don stands his ground, right behind me. …
Agoraphobia? Not me! Exploring ancient Athens
Athens May/June 2022. Sometimes sleep is not important; sometimes the reward for getting up really early is worth it. We …
Yellow Red Hill – Canberra’s Red Hill Nature Reserve
2 Dec 2022-14 Feb 2023. I do know that it’s been wetter than usual, that Canberra has had one of …
In The Shadow Of The Acropolis: the neighbourhood of the Gods. The Plaka, Athens
26-29 May and 18-20 June 2022. It’s not an auspicious beginning. The taxi driver from the airport starts taking us …
Weird All Round. In a good way. Well adequate anyway.
It was the stairs that did it . . . . . During the planning stages it doesn’t occur to …
Meeting In Real Life – Pics or It Didn’t Happen
Sometimes, just sometimes, it happens. In Real Life. After you’ve been blogging a while you somehow, bit by bit, miraculously …
Visual Storytelling – street photography in Croatia
5-26 May 2022. All of these photos – chance encounters and random incidents – were taken in Croatia, but this …
Vis Island, Croatia. Lazy lay days doing not much.
21-24 May 2022. I’m stressed about getting to the ferry on time. Thank God I get through to book a …
Song of the Wild Water. Plitvice Lakes National Park
17-20 May 2022. We get to the bus stop really early. We know it’s going to be a double-decker bus …
Hvar Island, Croatia. Serendipity rules!
15 May 2022. I look with a niggling dismay at the vehicle. It’s old and large, a bulky 1980’s minivan …
Seduced By Zlatni Rat. The island of Brač and Zlatni Rat Beach.
16 May 2022. I love being in a boat on the water, and I’m always happy when it’s a ferry. …
Split’s Beauty Queen – the Riva waterfront
11-16 May 2022. If the historic core is Split’s venerable matriarch, then the waterfront pedestrian boulevard, known as the Riva, …
Adventures in Wonderland 