Wine picnic anyone

We wanted to do at least one winery visit while in Crete so found one close to the villa called Lyrarakis Winery. They offer wine tastings and a local Cretan food picnic so we decided to go on spec. Luckily … Continue reading

Mountain villages

Today was my turn to drive. We opted for a mini road trip up to a couple of mountain villages I’d read about. The first one was Tylissos which is a very old village with an impressive set of excavated … Continue reading

Greek Lessons

Many moons ago, Mrs Fogg spent 12 months learning Greek in our attempt to relocate to the Peloponnese. So here we are Tylosos about 30 mins outside of Agia Pelagia, to visit some Greek ruins, which are shut and for … Continue reading

Rethymno by the Sea

Quaint little seaside town approx 50km from the Villa with some of the most bonkers car leap frogging drivers ever. We is Here Lunch courtesy of Steve’s Pub….or was it? Sadly Steve cannot cook or figure out how to serve … Continue reading

Villa Hara

All we can say is WOW! The Villa is Here Built on 4 levels, with a gym in the basement (and pool table, ping pong and drum kit), next floor has 4 spacious bedrooms with 2 en-suite, the 3rd floor … Continue reading

Round 2

After the quite abysmal emirates trip to sit in Dubai and play where’s wally with our luggage, we are trying again, this time to a 5 bed private villa in Crete. Leeds Airport is a dump! Dirty and plain horrible. … Continue reading

Whoop whoop

And finally….. on Tuesday this week our cases finally came home! They’d been on holiday in Dubai, managed to visit Singapore (despite us not!) and even had a city break down in London before a road trip back home. we … Continue reading

Left Hand Meet Right Hand

Welcome to that well known airline currently playing where’s wally with our cases. Latest and greatest just leaves you mind boggled……. On Thursday Heathrow airport made contact to say one bag had arrived, can you come get it. Nope send … Continue reading