Today we had to get up at 5am to get ready to go to the port to catch the ferry to Santorini. The hotel was nice enough to organise some breakfast boxes for us. Very generous people! We caught a cab to the port and purchased our ferry tickets to Santorini. The ferry wasn’t leaving…
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After an early breakfast, a representative from Key Tours arrived at the hotel at around 7:30am to pick us up. We were the first to be picked up and by the time everyone had been collected it was around 9:30am before we hit the highway out of town. Our tour guide Mariana had a wealth…
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Today we got up early and had breakfast then headed out to see the Ancient Agora, which was within walking distance of our hotel. We wondered around the ancient ruins enjoying the sun and after coming out of there stumbled upon Hadrian’s Library. We had purchased a special pass for the day that included…
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We spent a pretty boring day on the ferry and arrived in Patras, Greece at around 2pm. We then got a taxi to the bus station, where we had to catch a bus to Athens. This involved a 3hr bus ride! Let me just say it was a really really long day! The bus driver…
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Today we had to get to the train station by 7:30am to catch the train to Ancona on the coast. It was a miserable, wet, cold morning in which we had to drag our luggage through the streets to the vaporetto. We managed to get onto the train on time and settled in for a…
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While I had put together an itinerary nothing was set in stone so today we wondered along the waterfront from San Marco square down towards Castello. We looked in some shops, went into one of the churches there, San Pietro di Castello, not realising that the church was one of the original churches before the…
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As the sun was rising over Venice on a crisp -7 degrees morning Silvia & John said farewell to Kylie and Peter as they took the water taxis back to the train station. After that it was just Peter & myself in Venice. We wondered through the winding streets and over small bridges to cross…
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Making the most of the daylight hours we went sight seeing. Our first stop was San Marco square and the beautiful church where we were required to pay to explore each nook which made us choose the sections we wanted to see. One of these was the storage catacomb of religious relics including a small…
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Today we had to travel via train from Zermatt to Venice. We left the beautiful winter village Zermatt in darkness as our electric car driver finally showed up giving us only minutes to catch our train. After that adrenaline rush we sat back and enjoyed the view of Valley town retreating from view as the…
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We were going to catch the cable car up to the Little Matterhorn today but unfortunately the weather was not conducive. The cable cars were not operating. So instead we walked around town. We went to the church and looked at the cemetery where pretty much all the people had died on the surrounding mountains,…
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