What a week..

Ok - so we've been a bit barren on posts over the past 9 or 10 days. But we have good reason, you have to trust us.

Mykonos

Our cruise ship left Santorini at around 11:30, and we cruised through the night (with a 1am dinner at the all-night cafe) to arrive at Mykonos early the next morning.

Santorini...

What can be said of Santorini? Santorini is the typical image you see of Greece and the Mediterranean. Brilliant white houses, with bright blue roofs, perched on, and in, cliffs overlooking the ocean. Donkey rides up from the port. That's Santorini.

Corfu - Beach Break

Once we got back on board the boat at Split, we continued on our merry way to to Corfu, Greece. This was our next programmed port of call, and we had booked into a "Beach Break" shore excursion...

Split

The first stop on our cruise was the Croatian town of Split

Of Trains and Journeys....

I've always wanted to do one of those magical long train journeys, like the Indian Pacific, or the Trans-Siberian. The massive, long trips that go for days on end where you cross miles of countryside, or even countries at a time.
As a slight nod to this, we chose to do an overnight train from Rome to Venice. We're buying a Eurail Pass for our next trip, so I'm sure there will be more of these things.

Spring has sprung...

It's kind of cool. When we first got here, not only was it absolutely freezing, grey overcast and depressing, but the trees out the back were stunted, grey, brown, boring tree trunks with branches.

More Free London

Living in London is expensive. I'm sure I've discussed this before, by mentioning cheap/free things. Today, (or, Saturday as the case may be...) we decided to avail ourselves of some more of these free things. Nothing like getting out and about, and seeing the city you live in.

Don't get me wrong...

I recognise the rights of unions, or even non-union employees, to strike, if they feel they aren't getting a fair deal. That makes perfect sense to me. In particular right now, I'm talking about the BA strikes

May Fayre and whiling away the aftenoon...

London is an expensive city. One of the most expensive in the world. With limited funds, that can sometimes make it hard to do things. Yesterday though, we stumbled on something to go and observe at Covent Garden. May Fayre!

Voting differences...

So we're in the middle of an election campaign here. Actually, today is election day. Yes, it's Thursday. There's at least a few schools closed of that we know of, to act as polling places. Out for a jog this morning, I saw at least 2 others, along with a number of things that really pushed home to me the differences between elections here, and back home

Shore Excursions!

In less than 15 days, we'll be in Rome, the kick off to our honeymoon. To kick things off in style, we looked at the Shore Excursions and booked some today.

Harrods!

So, despite the hail, and lack of Jubilee Line trains, we decided on Monday that we wanted to go to Harrods. Let's face it - we've been here 3 months, it's about time we went.

Plus, who else has ever been to a store that has a code of conduct, and dress standards, for visitors!