A Trip to Greece

This is probably not the place to rehearse the bitterness of not going to Greece for my honeymoon. There again, on the off chance that it might be, and in brief, we wanted to honeymoon in Greece. As we do not cope well with very hot weather this meant getting married in April or May. My mother was a teacher and refused to countenance talk of weddings in any month other than August - so that she had 'time to organise'.^ As the temperatures in Greece in August would have been unbearable for us, we went to Italy instead. And somehow or other we've never made the time to go since. In 34 years. We must have been really desperate to get there!  

 

^Strange to relate my sister got married just nine months after I did. Which meant that she got married, with my mother's total approval,  in May. Go figure.

 

Meanwhile back to Greece - metaphorically speaking.

 

We weren't actually planning to go to Greece this year, any more than we have planned to go for the last thirty odd years. We had a River Cruise booked for the end of April through the  Low Countries; basically art and chocolate, what's not to love? But we cancelled it when Peter was diagnosed at the beginning of the year.  We asked the travel company if we could transfer our deposit to another holiday later in the year and they stuttered a bit and then said yes, if we decided within 24 hours. We weren't really in the best of states to make that sort of decision under time pressure to be honest but we opted for this trip to the Peloponnese, arranged the transfer and then promptly forgot all the details. So right up to when we left for the holiday, when people asked whereabouts we were going I would say I didn't have a clue, I was just going to fall on the bus and let it take me wherever it felt like.

 

More detail and photos to come later, but the overall verdict once we got back was basically 'Glad we've been, won't rush back'. One of the reasons being that the landscape all looked like this

 

 

 



Picturesque for the first fifteen minutes. After which it gets a bit dull.