BRINDISI TO ATHENS I think we saw Greece as a bit of a hop, skip and a jump before reaching Turkey. We didn’t have any great plans for this stretch of the journey and in our pre-country language training were finding Greek words and spellings baffling. As we weren’t planning to visit any of the well known attractions we just thought we would get our heads down and go. How wrong we were to feel like that. Greece has been one big friendly smile and we have seen beautiful sights, cycled along some smooth and lovely roads, eaten wonderful food, …
Category: Italy
Oranges and Lemons…
PALERMO TO BRINDISI We left Cagliari behind and had a comfortable, uneventful ferry journey over to Sicily arriving at dawn to see this impressive city stretched along the coast. Palermo at dawn Despite Sicily being a similar size to Sardinia it has five times the population and we had been told that it would feel busier, livelier and more hectic. We embarked however to a city just waking up and all was quiet as we headed to the nearest cafe for breakfast. We spent a lovely day exploring in the sunshine, visiting street markets and impressive buildings including the cathedral …