This Parenting Thing 

After my emotional post talking about seeing the Acropolis and Parthenon from afar I thought I would now share our experience of seeing...

One of our reasons for visiting Athens was because, for the longest time I have wanted to see the famous Acropolis and Parthenon and so...

We had always planned to leave Kefalonia for Christmas to spend the festive period in Athens. I had wanted to visit this historic city...

I was amused by a sign for "Cyclopean Walls" as we drove near the Kefalonian capital, Argostoli one afternoon and when I got back to base...

Quite a few people on my social media pages have been interested in our volunteer work with Wildlife Sense here in Kefalonia, in fact my...

As my Shakespearean title suggests I thought I’d tell you about a couple of cemeteries that the boys and I have visited during our stay....

From Anchorage Villas in Karavados (our base for this first leg of our travels) when you sit by the pool or anywhere to the front of the...

We are definitely seeing both the pros and cons of visiting an island like Kefalonia in the “off season”. During the summer this part of...

As we get more settled into Kefalonian life we have started to explore all that this island has to offer. Back home in the UK we would...

We realised quite early on that for our stay in the Greek islands renting a car would be important. Although most of the islands we’ll be...

When we picked Kefalonia as the first stop on our gap year adventure it was partly because we thought it would be a great place to do...

Three days ago we landed in Kefalonia, an island in the Ionian sea, to the West of mainland Greece. Me, my husband, our two boys, 3...

In the beginning… I am writing this sat in a static caravan in the seaside town of Seasalter on the Kent coast. I am here with my husband...

We are beginning the first weeks of our year of travel in a fairly inconspicuous place — a static caravan in a small camping park near...