An Amateur’s Guide to Greek Cats
This is a guest post by Caterina Pheline. Between balmy mornings and shivering nights, cat life in Greece is simple, sweet and often lavish. This isn’t survival of the fittest, it’s the feline luxury of the finest. It’s a place where Terry Pratchett’s words ring true, “In ancient times cats...
Horror in Athens
It seems like every time I visit a country, some kind of horror befalls me; which makes me wonder whether my life story is some horror/thriller or dark humour film. This time, we got robbed in Greece. Let’s begin, shall we? Our day started out like any other day...
The Panathenaic Stadium – A Quick Guide
The Marble Jewel of Greece Greece’ beautiful work of art; the Panathenaic Stadium. Built with shiny, cool marble wrapping around a jet-black racetrack that looked as if it was a work of the Olympian Gods, the Olympic Stadium looks majestic as ever. Getting there As you walk out of...
Around Athens – Part 2
Visiting Lycabettus Hill & Syntagma Square After arriving back in Athens from Kalamata, we booked a taxi with BEAT and headed in search of our third Airbnb. While waiting for the apartment to get ready, we sat in a small café; had a toasty feta pastry with a lovely...
Tips on Travelling to Greece in Winter
By mid-to-late November, temperatures in Greece drop considerably lower than what you would expect; especially after seeing endless pictures of bright blue seas and sunny skies. When we travelled to Greece it was the first two weeks of December and the lowest the temperature dropped to was about 7...
Kalimera from Kalamata
A long bus ride through miles and miles of olive groves and what looked like vineyards, we travelled from Athens via KTEL Messinias – the Express bus – possibly the most scenic way to travel to Kalamata; the town of olives. We spent two days in Kalamata, doing absolutely...
Around Athens – Part 1
Visiting Athena, The Acropoli and the Presidential Guards at Syntagma Square Day two in Greece. Missed Day one? Read it here .The temperature was approximately 8 degrees Celsius when we finally managed to get out of bed and play hopscotch along the carpets in our room to get to...
Ya sas Greece!
Greece in a nutshell was a whirlwind of everything I expected it to be, yet nothing of what I expected it to be, if that makes any sense. After years of failed plans and almosts, my best friend and I decided 2019 was THE year to do it. We...
A Guide to Camping in Horton Plains
After more than 3 years of working and trying to promote glamping properties in Sri Lanka, my first Camping experience didn’t fall short of what I expected with my Digital Marketing team. Although a glamping site offered basic essentials of a glamping site like hot, running water, a warm,...
1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Thank You For Hosting Us in Kandy
Kandy, as many of you know might already know is Sri Lanka’s last royal capital city. Before it fell to the hands of the colonists. Over the years, a number of hotels in Kandy sprang to life to offer visitors a chance to experience its rich history. Udawatte Kele...