Our drive from Tavira to Benagil required an approach focussed around eating up some time as we had to check out by 12 pm and we can’t check in at our Benagil apartment until 4 pm. Given that the drive was only an hour or so, we decided to have lunch somewhere on the way. […]
Our journey to Tavira started with our departing San Sebastian/Donostia. We’d arranged an airport transfer to pick us up from the hotel and drop us directly to Bilbao Airport. I’d arranged the transfer through an app called “BlackLane”. I’d never used them before but felt somewhat reassured when a driver was allocated to our trip
We kicked off our first full day in San Sebastian/Donostia with a walk along the beaches that stretch quite a long way from where we’re staying, to the old town. This walk, however, wasn’t one for exercise. This is the beginning of 2 solid days of Pintxo crawling. As mentioned previously, Pintxos is like a
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The drive from Lekeitio to San Sebastian/Donostia was along the northern coastline of Spain, looking out to the Bay of Biscay. This was a lovely drive along a winding road. It would have been the perfect ride on a motorbike but was also enjoyable in the Beemer. We avoided the highways on the way into
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Today we depart La Guardia for Lekeitio which is in the north of Spain on the coast, about 60k’s west of San Sebastian. Kath picked this little fishing village out of a number of possible places to stay up here due to the size of the town, then lack of traditional overseas tourists and the
We pick things up as we drive into La Guardia. This little village on top of a hill is one of those quaint little places that is both forgotten in time and modern all at the same time. The walls of the buildings look like they were erected just last week however some of them
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Our journey around Spain begins in Barcelona where we’ve booked into the Yurbban Trafalgar Hotel, which is in a perfect location for walking and seeing some of the main sights of Barcelona. For dinner tonight we managed to get a 20 minute slot at Bar Del Pla, which is highly recommended as having great local
Our journey through Spain begins with our flights from Brisbane to Barcelona. In preparing for this trip we decided that we really wanted to fly on an Airbus A380, mostly because we hadn’t done this before. We were using our Qantas Frequent Flyer points for our flights and as we wanted to fly Business class,
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You know it’s getting close when you start going through all your camera gear/toys. A few last minute purchases being some new GoPro batteries for the ageing Hero 3 and a charging adapter for 3 batteries, and a couple of SanDisk Ultra UHS high-speed micro SD cards as backups for the GoPro and the DJI
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We departed Polignano at around 10 and headed to Bari airport. We topped up with fuel along the way which was much less painful than the first fueling attempt thankfully. We arrived just in time to drop the car off at Avis and walked into the airport. There was a massive line up for
The drive from Matera to Polignano was very short but as we couldn’t check-in until 3pm, we took the scenic route through never ending fields of wheat and other crops. We planned to stop just outside of Polignano to give the hotel a call, as they had requested, and also for a comfort stop and
The drive to Matera was largely uneventful apart from me having an argument with the petrol vending machine. We arrived in Matera pretty much on schedule and found our way to the accommodation which is at one end of the Sassi. The Sassi, Italian for stones or rocks, is an area of Matera where people
We are off the ship! It’s been a long 36 days and while we’re glad to be back on land, we’re not sure how we will be able to function in society without someone cleaning up after us, cleaning our room, telling us what to eat. Mind you, we are going to a lovely little
After a sea day travelling from Athens, we arrived at Palermo. Kath had booked a walking tour of the city with Francesca, a born and bread Palermo local who also happens to be writing a book on Sicilian food and wine, and just passed her sommelier’s test. Francesca is a lovely lady who is passionate
On ANZAC day we were sailing off the coast of the Gallipoli peninsula at the same time our soldiers would have been 100 years earlier. It was an eerie feeling to be outside in the dark, as the ship moved slowly past ANZAC cove. We woke up at around 3am and were upstairs on the
We’re in Greece now and again we spend 3 days in 3 different cities, well, 2 islands and a city. We started off in Santorini. To reach the island we had to tender from the cruise ship via local tender vessels. These are run by the local operators and while the ship is capable of
Well, it's goodbye Santorini and goodbye Santorini Princess. We've had a pretty fantastic time here and it has been the perfect end to what has been a very exciting holiday. It's a little hard to remember the start of our holiday as it was so long ago, but when we reflect on what
We've arrived in Santorini and got transfers from the new port to the Santorini Princess. On; been here 1 night but I have only 1 word to describe this hotel, 'Perfect'. Room service is well priced, the pool is awesome, Kath and I had a 60 minute massage today and are super relaxed.
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Got to Naxos on the fast ferry and had a look at the information place to see if we could get some accommodation. Again, we had a few in mind, but they did not have availability so we went with one that was recommended in the Lonely Planet and was also owned by the
We arrived on Mykonos and made our way to the Accommodation info place at the port. There is a bunch of places to stay on the island either in the town or on the outskirts. Kath had researched a few and knowing our price range we asked for what was available. Hotel Tagoo, 700 metres
