After a pleasant late breakfast we left for golf at Mission Hills for 11am game. It was expected to rain all day and we were the last group to hit off. We were met by a young trainee learning English and she showed us where to go, took us to the locker room and escorted […]
Blue Canyon, Lake Course
We tried to play Blue Mountain four weeks ago, but got washed out after a few holes. In that time Rosie lost 3 balls and Bruce lost 2. We were fortunate enough to get a rain check. We had nothing planned for today so everything worked out well. Our caddies from our last trip raced […]
Loch Palm GC
Loch Palm is situated next to Red Mountain and was very similar. Red Mountain was most probably in better condition, but Loch Palm was still very enjoyable to play. There was the usual copious amounts of water to hit over or avoid but this was a reasonable challenge. Rosie struggled a bit throughout the game, […]
Unexpected Abu Dhabi Stopover
On our last day in Athens, our plane was an hour late departing, which wasn’t good given we only had a two hour stopover planned. When we arrived in Abu Dhabi we thought they would race us to the next gate, instead they took us off to the side, gave us new boarding passes for […]
Piraeus Port of Athens
Today Bruce was looking for something different to do, rather than another ancient ruin. He decided to visit Piraeus, which is the port where all the cruise ships and island cruise ships start out. We took the train to the port, which cost $1.80 each for a 90 minute ticket. The train was easy to […]
Kalamata Days
We loved being up in the mountains but Rosie didn’t cope very well with the drive down to Kalamata. Bruce has never spent so much time looking out of the driver’s side window or the passenger’s windows to see where the road went. Most of the trips we have driven in the last two days […]
Dimitsana Days
Bruce wanted to stay in a hilltop village, which we couldn’t do in Italy, since we didn’t have a car. Dimitsana is a beautiful town stuck on the side of a mountain and is perfect. The drive up here was a bit tricky, but Bruce enjoyed it. It took us a while to find the […]
Nafplio
We picked up our hire car and left Athens, to drive to the Peloponnese. The initial part of the trip was a bit tricky getting used to the traffic and driving on the wrong side of the road, but Bruce coped reasonably well. Making to our first stop, the Corinth Canal. This was constructed in […]
Athens Days 1
We arrived in Athens and everything went well at the airport, Bruce organised a taxi pickup which is always very pleasant and stress free and we had a nice drive into the centre of Athens. We were dropped off right next to a huge restaurant area with beautiful trees and lots of people. Our hotel […]
Abu Dhabi Stopover
To get to Greece, the best option I could find was to go Etihad via Abu Dhabi. Unfortunately there was a 20 hour transit so I looked into their free stopover offers and we chose to stay for 2 nights at the Traders Hotel (actually only 30 hours) but much better than sitting in the […]