Travelling Trappies

  Türkiye'den selamlar (greetings from Turkey), well Istanbul to be more precise. We’re almost at the end of the first leg of our Turkey trip and until today the weather gods had not been very nice – requiring a search to the depths of the case to find our ‘more wintery’ clothes!   But I’ll get back to that shortly. Picking up where I finished the last blog: after a quick stop in Heraklion on Crete, we jumped on the boat to Naxos – about 3 and a half hours away. It was a fairly calm crossing stopping at Santorini on the way to drop off and pick up passengers. Coming into Naxos was magical – just like you imagine a Greek Island to be. White washed buildings climbing up the hills, waterfront cafes/bars/restaurants, outdoor dining, shops with brightly coloured clothes and cobbled roads. We stayed at the Naxos Beach Resort about 100m from a very nice beach and although the temps had dropped, we were still able to enjoy a stroll along it and a couple of hours lying in the sun! I br...

Χαιρετισμούς από την Ελλάδα (Chairetismoús apó tin Elláda – Greetings from Greece). It is just as well that a lot of Greek people speak English because their alphabet (which all road signs, instructions, shops and descriptions use) is VERY hard to interpret!! We have a supermarket underneath our apartment and have to google translate to work out what everything is. We went to the counter with what we thought was washing powder (based on the pic on the container) but it turned out it was washing machine cleaner!!! Luckily the check out woman spoke English and said she didn’t think this was what we were after!!!   We are loving Greece – great food, lovely people, sooooo much to see.   The fates were conspiring against us. With an ETA in Athens of 6am after a 4 hour flight with no sleep and a check in time of 3pm at the hotel, somehow our flight left on time, arrived early, immigration and luggage arrival were efficient and there were no customs to speak of! Our driver was ready...