Blogs from Thrace, Greece, Europe

I crossed back into Greece, the EU and the Schengen Area today. A pretty routine bus ride except that I was singled out for special treatment at the border by the Greeks. They searched my bags and asked me about where I was going - and what had I been doing in North Cyprus (the part occupied by Turkey). Aha! Funny how the government of Cyprus seems pretty cool about people crossing over to the North but the Greeks get their knickers in a twist over it. I couldn't help but laugh at how the road surface on the Turkish side got worse and worse as we approached the frontier. I don't think I saw one road sign in Turkey naming Greece or a Greek town. How childish!... read more

We were up early & had everything packed up & ready to go by 9.30. We said goodbye to Mike again who told us that if we came back next year he'd be gone as he was retiring... Off to cross the border at Ipsala into Greece...through rolling fields of wheat, sunflowers & corn. As we approached the border town the road was almost deserted – the locals use the side roads & this main road for Greece was hardly used which probably explains why they make shoddy repairs. It has to be the worst section of road we had used in all our travels. We weren't looking forward to the crossing what with the expected bureaucracy but we sailed through – no customs checks, no nothing apart from passports & the V5 document for Billy. ... read more

I meant to explain the 3 pictures of the 'statics' on the previous post as the 'good, the bad & the ugly' which were just examples of the city dwellers summer retreats. We're surprised the camp sites allow some of the stuff they do ...... read more

Second day/night at Ismaros hotel It was even hotter when we got up today. Catherine sat outside on the porch where we had played cards before everyone else was up and by the time she came in she was baked! Our first breakfast here and we managed 4 out of 5 which isn't bad. Pancakes were great the coffee ok and the rest pretty mediocre - but that was as expected. We were almost the last in breakfast - and by the time we had finished they were packing away. We had seen lots of brown signs indicating sites of interest before we arrived at the hotel so we went out to look at some of them. The first was an ancient amphitheatre which had been destroyed in 1906 when they used the stone for a ... read more

Hello, hello mindenkinek, rég nem jelentkeztem, a nyár igen nagy változásokat, átalakulásokat hozott, így innentől a menetrendszerű, germán precizítással mindent rögzítő bloggolás helyett az új, spontán írásé lesz a tér, tükrözve azt, amit az életemben is szeretnék: sokkal jobban a pillanat igényeinek megfelelően élni, és kevésbé a már-már folytogató, saját magam felé támasztott elvárásoknak megfelelően. Ennek égisze alatt íme az uj email címem, ha valaki szeretne írni: konemara76@gmail.com, és egy kis szösszenet a Flórával megjárt görög túráról, mely augusztus végétől szeptember elejéig tartott. Kellemes kocsiúttal kezdődött, Kisnyalkán megismert képbenlevős útitársainkkal, Attilával és Franceskával szeltük át a végtelenül unalmas E75-ös autópályán a leperzselt, leharcolt, kitikkadt Szerbiát, majd a déli részen a bájos hegyes Montenegróba és Macedóniába szagoltunk be egy két kanya... read more