My back wasn’t too bad this morning. I had breakfast at the hotel in the cavernous and almost deserted restaurant. I wondered what was happening as all of the staff were sitting at a table smoking cigarettes. I sat at a table as far as I could get away from them and had a coffee …
Today’s ride on Komoot Leaving Thessaloniki was pretty ugly. The first however many kms were flat, dusty and full of randomly driven cars without a lot of order or purpose. Turning off the fairly major road to the west didn’t improve things as quite a few trucks made the turn as well. In fact, most …
I hardly took photos today. Seriously, there was nothing to see. Today’s ride on Komoot I was the only occupant of the hostel last night, so it was a little strange, but I was up and out at a reasonable hour. Any thoughts I had about returning to Meteora disappeared with the morning’s cloud and …
Today’s ride on Komoot What a strange day. It was a cold night up in the hills. It didn’t rain much after I had my dinner, but the temps were definitely down on what I’m used to. I even got out my Trifecta – a thermal sleeping bag cover that improved things no end. It …
Today’s ride on Komoot Today was a day of two halves like any good game of rugby league – sorry, I listened to Roy and HG’s Bludging on the Blind side podcast for the first part of the day. Too much sport really was barely enough. It was a flat boring little ride into Lamia, …
Today, I was tired after two hard days back riding from my two weeks of rest and magnificent relaxation in the Greek Isles. Luckily, there was nobody around in the morning to make me hurry, and while I’d always like to get going early, my natural laziness kicks in and says – John, this is …
Today’s ride on Komoot I had my usual – take it easy – morning with breakfast and coffee in the room. I also had a call with my old workmate, Martin R who has bike toured in Europe. It’s always nice to have calls with friends and family from home, but it meant I had …
Today’s ride on Komoot It was raining this morning, so I delayed my departure and went and got some breakfast. I repacked which wasn’t simple, because I got a new handlebar bag yesterday. Now I’ve got to work out where everything goes all over again. That’ll take a week or so I think. I had …
I spent three nights on Syros and six on Antiparos. It’s the Orthodox Easter so it’s busy everywhere, but strangely, not all accommodation or food options are open. Syros was very nice, even quite touristy. It’s early May and I expected things to be ramping up much more. People are still cleaning and renovating restaurants, …
Today’s ride on Komoot Today was a short day. I had to ride a few kms to the port in Salamina then get a ferry to the mainland. Komoot has a ferry route marked that goes to Piraeus but I suspect that is for foot passengers only. The car ferry goes to Perama which is …
