[12.07.2008] This was the first holiday abroad for my wife and I 1988, so at the time we had little experience of beaches abroad. We stopped in a hotel called the Iliessa and you could walk out of the hotels grounds straight onto the beach. My wife was not a competent swimming at the time and the pool did not have a shallow end, so she would not go into it. She dreaded the thought of going into the sea as she was unsure if s [more]

[01.01.2008] Zakynthos or Zante was the first holiday abroad for me and the first together with my wife, belated honeymoon. We did a few excursions on the 2 week holiday, one of them being the island tour which included a boat trip to Smugglers Cove. If you have looked in a holiday brochure that includes the island of Zakynthos you will have seen an image of a shipwrecked boat half covered in sand, this is Smugglers Cove. Y [more]