Category: Travel Stories

Travel Stories

Drawing Water

Collecting fresh water is a constant of vanlife. Petrol stations and cemeteries are solid sources in the UK and a history of providing services for

Travel Stories

Hydra

It was a pretty spontaneous decision to visit Hydra. I’d wanted to go but somehow thought I’d have to stay and the accommodation was expensive.

Musings

New Year’s 2021

New Year’s Eve was leisurely, drifting around the sunny beach in the day and sitting fireside, with four new friends, by night. We stared at

Musings

Post Poros

I know how Eve feels. When you are thrown out of paradise where do you go? We weren’t exactly thrown out but on early Sunday

Musings

Ferry Tales

The news of a 5 hour delay when already queuing on the port to board was not a good start. This was only made worse

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The land of free dogs

Almost the first thing I saw when I got off the ferry, driving along in the dark, almost empty roads was three little dogs, out

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Pienza

Pope Pius II’s birthplace, under the former name of Corsignano, before being remodelled by him within the principles and philosophy of the Italian Renaissance to

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Montepulciano and Montfollonico

Montepulciano and Montfollonico are both beautiful places but Montepulciano is extraordinary, it’s like wandering around in a story-book.  The seemingly endless streets are overflowing with

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Albenga, Italy

If I hadn’t of gone into Albenga at night I would have missed the rotating lumiere style lights turning the stone of the medieval cathedral