Peter's Travel Blog

This is a postscript to the voyage, written in the Orpheous Lounge on Monday morning, overlooking Piraeus Harbour, awaiting the call for disembarkation, which, for us, won’t come until 3:15pm this afternoon. An hour’s bus ride to Athens airport will be followed by a further two hour wait for our British Airways flight which is due to leave at 6:30pm....

This morning, we passed through the ancient, and rather awesome, Corinth Canal. At roughly 3 miles in length, it provides a convenient shortcut from the Ionian Sea back into the Aegean Sea, and to Athens, our starting point. I plan to google the Corinth Canal when I get home, to learn more about it. It’s an absolute marvel of engineering,...

Today, we arrive in Sarande, on the coast of Albania. Albania is one of those places that I would have struggled to point to on a map of the world. I now know that it is located just North of Mainland Greece, and sandwiched between Macedonia in the east and Montenegro in the North, at roughly the meeting point between...

Today, we’ve been at sea, heading towards our next destination, Sarande, in Albania, where we are due to arrive tomorrow morning. Tracey and I spent the morning working on our laptops in the Orpheus Lounge (which is also where I hold my classes). It’s a great place to sit, positioned as it is, right at the front of the ship,...

Today, we arrived in Sicily’s second largest city, Catania. I was on tour escort duty, on an excursion, continuing with the volcano theme, to visit Mount Etna. LIke Palermo, Catania is a big, bustling city, and it took the coach a long time to break free of the traffic. Once we’d left Catania behind, the going became much easier and...