We woke up to a cool sunny morning which was a big relief after the heat yesterday. We got ourselves organised and drove north along the Roman road the Fosse Way to Lincoln.  We stopped off for coffee at a farm shop on the way and bought some local Scotch eggs and English pork pie…

The view out of the window was very atmospheric due to the humidity and heat of the previous days. Glenn and Grant were out for their 6am walk so the views wouldn’t be great. Getting downstairs I heard the new fridge in the van beeping. Looking inside an error was showing on the battery panel.…

I started the day at 7.30 with a cool walk around the Wellington basins – dug out by the woollen factory in 1803 for their water supply. They are now ponds in a nature reserve next to Wellington Park. I did a loop walk around seeing swans with cygnets and a heron beside its little…

We had a big family breakfast at the local Wetherspoons pub The Iron Duke. There are 3 kids who were not born 3 years ago when we were here for Jess and Connor’s wedding. Margot is 1 year old and made the most mess. We are into another heatwave so walking is only possible first…

We are enjoying a lovely time in Wellington, Somerset being looked after very well by my brother Grant and sister in law Anne. My mum is down here from Scotland for a family get together. We have had nice sunny days and lovely dinners. However we have been busy sorting out Gus the motorhome who…

We arrived in the UK in very warm temperatures over 30 degrees. England is having problems as there is very little aircon and lots of things are breaking down. There was no traffic on the road as schools were closed and people had worked from home if they could. Helen very kindly picked us up…

We had 2 nights at Sounio south of Athens to have some beach time before we left for the UK. However UK is currently actually hotter at 33 degrees. Sounio is 27 and breezy. We had a full day on the very comfortable sun loungers on the beach with the 2400 year old temple above…

We had a late start as we were meeting everyone for a late breakfast at 9am. We had the last breakfast before saying goodbye so Paulette, Mike, Jeff and Tsachi could go and catch their ferry. We watched their ferry pull out later from a cafe opposite. We now had a quiet day to do…

Today it’s the 21st June and Paulette’s 60th birthday – the reason we are all here in Greece. It’s a coincidence that Tsachi had his birthday on the same day – but its not a major birthday this year. We started our outing today by driving through the town of Vourkari just north of us…

We had the earliest breakfast we could to get to the trail for the archeological site of Karthaia before it got too hot. There were a few obstacles on the way. At the head of the trail we took a ‘before’ photo to compare when we made it back. We found the track was a…