janesadventures

                                                             Thursday and Friday Travel east towards the Nestos delta   - the area is close to the border with Turkey to the east and Bulgaria to the north. Geoff is keen to visit the delta as it is a wetland area (= mosquitoes) and there are also steppe birds – so he is looking for Rollers, Lesser Grey Shrike, Mediterranean Gull to name but a few. Park up on a campsite on the side of a small beach where there are a lot of permanent caravans/chalets and a very welcoming owner.   Saturday People start to arrive with speed boats and kayaks for a weekend of fun just as we are leaving for the Delta .   Stop at Keramoti - a small port where ferries go to Thassos, for a breakfast of coffee and cake before driving down some tracks and into forests around the west of the delta. The area feels very abandoned – there has been a visitor centre and picnic areas but now they are all overgrown. There are plenty of mosquitoes and flies though and to th

  Van trip to Greece 2023. Tuesday 18 th April. Van packed, hoping we haven’t forgotten anything of major importance and leave Northumberland for our 3 month trip to Greece. The first stop on our journey is Sunderland, which may not sound that exciting bearing in mind our destination but it is exciting to us as we are going to see our first live music gig for a while – the rather spectacular DakhaBrakha. They are a Ukrainian band that Geoff has been interested in for some time. They only play a very small number of concerts in the UK so we never thought we would see them live – but here they are - playing in Sunderland - we couldn’t quite believe it! And it was a truly incredible concert. They were superb. There were quite a few Ukrainian nationals in the audience so the whole evening was rather an emotional rollercoaster. I later find out that Sunderland is a ‘city of sanctuary’, welcoming people fleeing violence and persecution. Wednesday: We stayed overnight with our friend M