The Verbose Traveller

An extended time in Greece was never on the cards in our original plan. We'd considered Israel & Italy, Israel & France, Israel & the UK. But when we settled on our "Best of Israel & Steps of Paul" tour, and realised that it ended in Athens, after a little taste of the Greek Islands, we started to consider the merits of staying on in Greece, seeing as we would already be there. And then, after hearing about the Greek Islands from a dear friend who spent 7 weeks there last year, we were even more inclined. Turns out we saw Greece in "chapters" - our overnight stay on our way through to Israel, where all we really saw was the area near the airport, a little of the coast, and our first taste of delicious Greek food; a  whirlwind cruise from Turkey through the islands; then a couple of days in  Corinth  and Athens at the end of our tour; our relaxing Greek Islands days; and lastly some more time in Athens  to finish our holiday. In t

We had a great time, but how good it is to be home! And how good it is to be blogging on my laptop and not on the iPad!! I'm not sure what it is, but just between you and me I don't think iPad and Blogger (a Google blogging platform) like each other very much. Writing wasn't a problem, but as soon as I tried to upload photos into a post, Blogger started to behave very badly. Or maybe it was the iPad that was behaving badly, I really couldn't tell. Whatever it was, it made getting a post ready to upload so much harder and longer than it should have been. Every time I enlarged a photo, or swapped out a photo, or deleted a photo, the post would freeze and I would have to save it, close it and reopen it to do anything further. It was incredibly frustrating at times, so it's a joy to be back using a laptop! Now let's wrap up Israel, the first part of our trip, and the main reason we did the trip at all. Obviously I’m no expert on Israel, we spent just shy of 1