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Catching up on my reading from when I'd been in Europe, I stumbled upon a new blog of old recipes; Cooking in the Archives . It appea...

It was my first day back in the kitchen after a couple of months in Europe. I'd been asked to make a dessert for a lazy chicken and s...

Our last port of call in Greece was Meteora, an area in the north, well known for its unusual honey-comb rocks and rocky pillars, and the c...

The following morning we headed to the ancient sanctuary of Delphi where again, there was a museum and the archaeological site. However be...

Whilst in Athens we'd visited the stadium of the first modern Olympic Games, but today, our port of call was Olympia, home of the ancie...

Having appreciated Ancient Corinth and the sunshine, we jumped back on the bus for a quick lunch stop and then on to Mycenae.  Mycenae...

Having been woken at some ungodly hour, we were on the bus and heading out of Athens at an hour I'm usually just contemplating getting ...

I'm visiting Greece by Tour, simply because I don't feel comfortable doing it my myself and driving myself around the countryside ...

Still being unsatisfied with my impressions of Venice (they just weren't matching up with external images of Venice) I decided that th...

On the ferry back from Burano I got talking to an old Italian who told me that to appreciate Venice you have to get lost in the streets. Wh...