EU Chatting and Stalking

[bigverne28]

Waaaauw!!! I was thinking of you the past days, I already assumed you where off to holiday because you weren’t responding as often as you normally do. But these pictures make up for everything

Love to see all the history in Athens and it doesn’t look so crowded! Or you’re just a pro at taking pictures without any other people on it

Enjoy your time in Naxos and the others islands you still have to visit. Please share more pictures when you have the chance! Love to see the islands through your eyes

The Parthenon on top of the Acropolis was crowded but I waited patiently in order to get less people in the pics. We also booked private tours with a driver and guide so we could time our arrival during quieter times and had total control of what we wanted to see and when. I have more pictures to post from Athens and the islands, but TPF is having issues uploading so I may try when I get back home.

We are in Paros now, which I love, surprisingly more than Naxos. There’s a fantastic nightlife scene with great bars and restaurants, which I wasn’t expecting. Three nights is not enough . Tomorrow we head to Santorini .

Thanks for the tips on the ferries hun. Blue Star was great from Naxos to Paros, hopefully it will be the same experience to Santorini tomorrow .

 

[bigverne28]

These pics are all AMAZING!!! So glad your holiday is going well, after two years too! Enjoy the next parts of your trip!

Thanks hun . I usually travel to Asia for hols of 3 weeks or more but Greece has surprised me. I’ll definitely be back! It’s a 3.5 hr flight from London, so could easily do a long weekend here .

 

[bigverne28]

Beautiful pics hun it sounds like you are having a wonderful vacay and everything is going smooth with changing locations in Greece.

Thanks hun. Travelling around has been smooth so far. We’ve even taken the tourist bus a few times on the islands to go into town. Very organised and cheap at €1.80 per trip .

 

[bigverne28]

YES, it's the personal clutch in polycarbonate since it is a more carefree material and doesn't dent that easy. Even hubby told me the difference between the materials I chose white. If they would have silver I would have chosen that one since silver trolleys is Rimowa for me. But when I opened the box, I really really like the white color

We have been travelling these last couple of weeks and when checking in, going through security and showing passports and boarding cards at the airport I realized that I needed this type of bag. Since I have a LV backpack when travelling I also needed a bag that is easy to reach and having important documentation near me. I could sometimes go mental with having everything in my backpack, swinging it back and forth to reach my stuff (though looking very stylish)

So here she is:
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The stickers are still on the hardware

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For reference I'm 158cm and the strap is on the shortest length
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Wow! Looks fab on you . I’ve also been considering this bag since seeing it on Cassie Thorpe. She has the Dior x Rimowa but it’s exactly the same as this, just not Dior across the front. Your pics have definitely made me think I need one of these.

 

[Sibelle]

Amazing pictures @bigverne28 ! Thank you so much for sharing - glad you enjoy your well deserved holidays! I really need to go to Greece too, it has so many amazing sights AND great weather.
I have never heard of airtags but they sound like somethig I need to have for my next trip.
Enjoy your holidays and looking forward to more beautiful pictures

 

[Lionfish]

Wow! Looks fab on you . I’ve also been considering this bag since seeing it on Cassie Thorpe. She has the Dior x Rimowa but it’s exactly the same as this, just not Dior across the front. Your pics have definitely made me think I need one of these.

Cassie is the one to blame Love her videos! When I saw her Dior X Rimowa I was like, I need this type of bag in my life and then I saw that Rimowa released their "own" design and for half of the price of the Dior X Rimowa I knew I had to have it.
You should come across a Rimowa Store on your way back home to UK so you can check out the bag . I waited a few weeks since I knew that I was going to Copenhagen (last saturday) and Rimowa is at the Illum department store but they did not have any in stock so as soon as I came home I ordered online.

 

[bigverne28]

Amazing pictures @bigverne28 ! Thank you so much for sharing - glad you enjoy your well deserved holidays! I really need to go to Greece too, it has so many amazing sights AND great weather.
I have never heard of airtags but they sound like somethig I need to have for my next trip.
Enjoy your holidays and looking forward to more beautiful pictures

Thanks . Greece is just wonderful, hardly any mosquitoes as it’s very dry here. It’s very hot but a wonderful breeze on the islands so you don’t feel the heat as much.

AirTags are great and highly recommend them. I love that you are alerted when you and your luggage are separated. You can actually watch your luggage as it’s moved around the airport. When I got to Naxos, which is a tiny airport, I could see my luggage had arrived and exactly where it was located.

 

[Sibelle]

We are now prepared for the upcoming heatwave .
Just assembled this new ventilator

 

[bigverne28]

We are now prepared for the upcoming heatwave .
Just assembled this new ventilator

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Are you in the UK? From what I’m seeing on the news they’re acting like it’s Armageddon . In Athens it was close to 40c for the whole 5 days we were there and we had no issues walking around. At night it was still nearly 30c. My understanding is that the extreme heat in the UK starts Monday and should dissipate by Wednesday.

 

[Milsaar]

hahaha, well all of us in this thread are enablers so I will say, buy buy

Hahaa, yes!! Do you know if these are ever on sale?

 

[Sibelle]

Are you in the UK? From what I’m seeing on the news they’re acting like it’s Armageddon . In Athens it was close to 40c for the whole 5 days we were there and we had no issues walking around. At night it was still nearly 30c. My understanding is that the extreme heat in the UK starts Monday and should dissipate by Wednesday.

No I am in Germany and they forecast around 40°C here too, but unlike Greece we don´t have that cool sea breeze, so better be prepared as I work from home

 

[Saz93]

Hope everyone is doing well. I’m finally in Greece for 3 weeks after my hols were postponed for 2 years due to the pandemic.

Flight out of UK to Athens was pretty smooth with no major issues. Athens is a great bustling city. We booked a room that was within walking distance to all the sights and from our balcony we had a view of the Acropolis.

Louis Vuitton, Tiffany, Hermes, and many designer stores were just one street away from our hotel, but I never made it to any of them as we crammed in tons of sightseeing in and out of the city. One tour we did was an 8 hour round trip by train to visit ancient Orthodox monasteries outside of the city. Apparently the monasteries were featured in a James Bond movie, For Your Eyes Only. It’s very hard to capture in pics these amazing monasteries on huge mountains.

After 5 nights in Athens we flew to Naxos, a very windy island so a lovely, cool breeze all day and night. I’m happy to say my AirTags were such a worthwhile purchase as I could track my luggage from dropping off at the airport and then see it was ‘With Me’ on the plane. I’d ready horrendous stories of luggage left behind and never making onto planes in Greece, so was happy I could track mine, whilst others on the flight were panicking Olof there’s had made it. I really recommend the AirTags if your travelling about a lot within a country. Next we travel to Paros and then Santorini.

Prepare for picture overload!

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Beautiful pics @bigverne28
Hope you’re having an amazing holiday.

Im in the UK and honestly they’re being so dramatic about the “heatwave”

 

[bigverne28]

Beautiful pics @bigverne28
Hope you’re having an amazing holiday.

Im in the UK and honestly they’re being so dramatic about the “heatwave”

Thanks hun! . It’s been a wonderful holiday so far.

The scaremongering in the UK is quite astonishing. Shutting schools, don’t travel unless you need to, reduced train services, water shortages, healthy people could die etc. This was on Sky News . Some of the newspapers have similar doomsday scenarios including what we need to do to “cope” with the “unprecedented” heatwave. We’ve just become a nanny state and a bunch of babies that can’t think for ourselves and apply simple logic. Parts of Europe have these temperatures for weeks on end every year and they cope and don’t make it a big deal about it. Wild fires are totally different and I understand these headlines, as watching people lose their homes and sometimes their lives trying to save their homes is tragic. In the UK we are no where near this kind of situation.

 

[bagsamplified]

Are you in the UK? From what I’m seeing on the news they’re acting like it’s Armageddon . In Athens it was close to 40c for the whole 5 days we were there and we had no issues walking around. At night it was still nearly 30c. My understanding is that the extreme heat in the UK starts Monday and should dissipate by Wednesday.

Your post inspired me to look up the weather- AARGH 38 DEGREES in London on Monday?!?? I'm not there but gosh that's HOT for you guys! (And hot for me too when it comes around )

Glad to know you could walk around comfortably in 40 degrees in Athens, especially being a city- was the breeze good there? Here it's just sweltering when it's 40

Your Airtags posts have been very helpful! Might consider that for future trips

 

[bigverne28]

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No I am in Germany and they forecast around 40°C here too, but unlike Greece we don´t have that cool sea breeze, so better be prepared as I work from home

Athens was definitely much hotter compared to the islands. The sea breeze is definitely a game changer. In fact in the evening a shirt or light sweater is not uncommon, as it can get a little chilly, even at 28c, because of the breeze.

I find keeping blinds down or curtains drawn definitely helps. Opening all the windows during the day makes the heat indoors worse. Best to do this in the evening when the temperature has dropped.