Greece 2025
It's more than 9 months now since we returned from our
Italian adventures. Once we got back to the UK we attended our
usual crop of music festivals over the course of the summer months as well as
spending our annual week relaxing with some of our Vloody Cloody "field
family" on the Norfolk Coast. But a
lot of our time was also dedicated to entertaining a regular stream of family
members who visited from overseas between May and October.
It was Lisa's turn to spend Christmas with her kids &
grandkids in Canada but otherwise we didn't really get round to doing anything
in the way of travelling for the remainder of the 2024. I did blank out the latter part of the year in my
diary for possible knee surgery but, without boring you with the details, that
ultimately didn't happen.
And so, I'm almost ashamed to admit that, apart from a quick
couple of blasts up and down the M62 to keep things ticking over, the van hasn't spun
a wheel since we last slept in her over the August Bank Holiday weekend. It's time to rectify that and get back on the
road again in search of adventure, culture and warmer weather. So this time we are
heading for Greece.
My relative inactivity over the last few months has given me
time to plan this trip rather more meticulously than was the case for our
previous forays into Europe. The reason
for doing so is partly down to an apparent lack of campsites which are open around
the Peloponnese outside of the main tourist season. We're fine with being off-grid for a week or more at a time but we do need to be able to empty the loo a little more frequently than that. And then there are also the notoriously narrow
and wriggly Greek roads to consider, so I’ve promised Lisa faithfully that we
won’t be putting ourselves in any potentially sticky situations by ensuring
that I am able to find evidence that all of our destinations are accessible to a vehicle
of our size based on other motorhomers' experiences before we try to get to them ourselves.
Our plan is to use the toll roads this time to speed us through France
rather more quickly than we have on our previous trips. If conditions allow we will then take the
Frejus Tunnel through the Alps and proceed across northern Italy via Turin and Bologna
to Ancona, from where we intend to take a ferry to the Greek port of Igoumenitsa. Then we will slow things right down as we
work our way down to and around the Peloponnese before heading back north via
Athens, Delphi, the Pelion Peninsular and the monasteries of Meteora.
Our planned homewards route is via Bulgaria and Romania
and we hope to have enough time to spend roughly a fortnight seeing some of the
sights in these two countries before we speed our way back towards Calais
via Hungary, Austria and Germany.
Once
again Rough Guide & Lonely Planet books have been purchased and thoroughly
studied to identify points of interest along the way.
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