Santorini Heaven
Blog by Tony (Thursday 8 August, 2019) We awoke to the usual 4am alarm this morning…so that we had enough time to again pack our suitcases and make our way to the lobby of our hotel to meet with our 5:45am quick shuttle ride to the port of Piraeus where we are to catch our […]
Egypt to Greece
Blog by Tony (Wednesday 7 August, 2019) Up early today at around 4:30am in preparation for our trip back to Greece. We’d arranged for a ‘breakfast box’ to be delivered to our room at 5:30am….so finished packing our bags before it arrived. We sat on the balcony one last time so that Kellie could have […]
Lazy Day in Egypt
Woke up again to the magnificent view of my grand pyramid, sat out and admired it for a while before heading off to breakfast, where once again we got the best seat in the corner of the restaurant, air conditioned and all.The corner seat has of course the view of the great pyramid 🙂 We […]
Pyramids + Museum
Blog by Kellie (Monday 5 August, 2019) Up early at 6am for we are heading to my beloved pyramids. It’s going to be approx 38 deg so we are heading out early. First stop breakfast where there is all international cuisine to eat .Next stop over to the reception area of the Marriott mena to […]
Greece to Egypt
Blog by Kellie (Sunday 4 August, 2019) Up early for today is our trip to Cairo. Left Phidias hotel Athens at 4am in a private car, definitely the way to go rather than pay taxi .Very easy check in with Aegean and flight very good only taking 2 hrs to arrive. We had prepared some […]
Family Lunch – Piraeus
Blog By Tony (Saturday 3 August, 2019) It was great to finally catch up with cousins Evagelia, Dimitri and Aunty Beba today! Evagelia and Dimitri picked us up from our hotel and took us to their place for what was a lovely long lunch. Beba was waiting to greet Kellie and I and it was […]
Acropolis – Parthenon
Blog by Tony (Friday 2 August, 2019) After choosing to tackle the Acropolis and Parthenon on our own opposed to spending 200 euro for a guided 5hr group tour…we decided to catch a taxi from our hotel which took just 15mins and 12 euro. We arrived at 2pm when many of the tourists were leaving […]
Exploring Piraeus
Blog by Tony (Thursday 1 August, 2019) After a huge 13hrs sleep…Kellie and I were keen to find ourselves a nice cafe and have a nice coffee/latte whilst taking in the views. We left our room at 6:15am and made it to the waters edge within just a 5min walk…only to find that no cafes […]