- Greece 2022: Retrospective
- Day 86: Athens Flight to the UK
- Day 85: Sifnos to Athens (Koropi)
- Day 84: Sifnos Troulaki Monastery and Kamares
- Day 83: Sifnos Sightseeing
- Day 82: Mum and Dad Arrive on Sifnos
- Day 81: Piraeus to Sifnos
- Day 80: Athens Airport Meet Up by Metro and More Piraeus
- Day 79: Exploring Athens Part 2: Hadrian’s Library, Roman Agora & Ancient Agora
- Day 78: Exploring Athens Part 1: Acropolis, Parthenon, Museum and Temple of Zeus
- Day 77 Agistri to Piraeus
- Day 76 Agistri Part 2 – Megalochori and Dragonera
- Day 75: Agistri – Chalikiada, Megalochori, Dragonera, Livadakia and Aponisos
- Day 74: Aegina Temple of Apollo, Ferry to Agistri
- Day 73: Exploring Aegina – Aegina Town
- Day 72: Exploring Aegina – Nectarios, Aphaia, Agia Marina, Ancient Olive Grove, Marathonas and Perdkia
- Day 71: Travelling from Stalis, Crete, to Aegina via Piraeus
- Days 67-70: Last Few Days in Stalis
- Day 66: Day Trip to Agios Nikolaos and Elounda
- Day 65: Gym in Malia, Sunbathe in Stalis
- Days 63 & 64: Malia and back to Stalis
- Days 59-62: More Malia
- Day 58: Malia, Gym and Jogging
- Day 57: Stalis to Malia
- Days 52-56: Stalis Life
- Day 51: First Day in Stalis
- Day 50: Ios to Crete
- Days 48 & 49: Last Two Days on Ios
- Day 47: Southern Ios – Tris Ekklisies, Magganari, Kalamos and Chora
- Days 45 & 46: Exploring Northern Ios
- Day 44: Ios Mylopotas Relaxation
- Day 43: Amorgos to Ios
- Days 42: Kos to Amorgos
- Days 37-41: Kos Town Downtime
- Day 36: Kos Paradise Beach, Kefalos and Zia
- Days 34-35: More Kos Town Relaxation
- Day 33: Kos Lido Water Park
- Days 31-32: Kos Town
- Day 30: Kos Paradise Beach
- Day 29: Kos Town Hotel Move
- Day 27-28: Astypalea to Kos and Kos Town First Day
- Day 24-26: An Unexpected Extension on Astypalea
- Day 23: Astypalea Part 2 – Vatses, Kaminakia, Marmari, Steno, Schinonta and Chrisi Ammos
- Day 22: Exploring Astypalea: Tzanakia, Agios Konstantinos, Livadi and Chora
- Reflections on Paros
- Day 21: Paros to Astypalea
- Day 20: My Last Day on Paros
- Day 19: Exploring Paros by Quad Bike (ATV)
- Day 18: Paros Revisiting Aliki
- Day 17: Parikia Again
- Day 16: Chilling out in Parikia
- Day 15: Antiparos Again
- Day 14: Paros Parkikia Sightseeing and Beach
- Day 13: Antiparos e-bike Experience
- Day 12: Paros Golden Beach
- Day 11: Paros Krios, Marcello and Naoussa
- Day 10: Paros Aliki Beach
- Day 9: Paros Logaras and Punda Beaches
- Day 8: Visiting Antiparos
- Day 7: Travelling to Paros
- Day 6: Back to Kalamata
- Day 5: Elafonisos
- Day 4: Monemvasia
- Day 3: Climbing Mount Taygetus
- Day 2: Mystras
- Day 1: Manchester to Kalamata
- It’s Almost Time… Kalamata Here I Come!
- 2022: Another Greek Summer Beckons
Tuesday 19th – Wednesday 20th July 2022
Breakfast and Kos Town Beach
With no car to explore the island, we decided to stay local for the next couple of days, so our itinerary was fairly similar and not all that exciting to read about. We ate breakfast at the hotel, then walked down to the beach at Sunburnt Arms to sunbathe and swim.
On Tuesday, I booked a table at MamaRosa so that I could take my girlfriend there for a nice meal, having told her many times how much I loved the food. We had a great meal: arancini balls to start, then we both had the tortellini with tomato and mushrooms in a cream sauce. On the way back into the centre of town, we stopped at XL Cafe & Cocktail bar as they were advertising €5 cocktails which were reasonably cheap compared with other prices we’d seen in the area.
The cocktails were nice enough and we had a couple each, before heading across the road to a sweet shop calls Hans & Gretel. My girlfriend had seen their candy floss machine and really wanted some.
Later on, we had a walk through the old town and I tried to find a leather shop that might be able to repair my sandals that had broken yesterday. One shop seemed promising as they made their own leather shoes but sadly didn’t offer a repair service. However, they pointed us to another shop which they said would repair them but when we turned up they were closed for the day.
On Wednesday, after finishing breakfast we walked back to the shoe repair shop and they were able to mend my sandals after I left them at the shop for a couple of hours. I was pleased to get them back and glad that I’d be able to use them again once the glue had dried. We then headed back to the beach again for another day of sunbathing.
For dinner, we went to another of my favourite spots: Twin Dragon Chinese. We got a table right on the seafront and had a nice meal, then repeated our plans from yesterday and went for another cocktail at XL Cafe and more candy floss from Hans & Gretel!
