Greek Odyssey Creative Adventure

01.09.2019 - 13.09.2019 Corfu | Alicia Aradilla watercolour, urban, sketching 3450 EUR

This holiday in Greece will be like no other holiday you have ever experienced. It is simply breathtaking. Experience 13 unforgettable days in mainland Greece creating your own travel journal with outstanding artist Alicia Aradilla.

In a series of daily workshops and demos in Greece, Alicia will teach you the gift of how to create a beautiful travel journal. The tour is all fully-escorted and designed for affordability, fun and safety in comfortable, relaxing  conditions.

The experienced tour manager and guide Kate Stedman is a historian, art lover and avid sketcher and she will take you to her favourite spots and regale you with fun facts and historic gems.

This 13-day travel sketching and journaling adventure in mainland Greece and the island of Corfu will be magic, inspirational and unforgettable. The bond created within the group becomes very special as everyone learns from and encourages each other in creating their journals. A skill and a present to take home with you for life.

Alicia will show you a huge variety of tips, methods, shortcuts, fun ways of seeing and interpreting your travels and really get the most out of your new-found love of sketching. Produce your own fabulous sketches and your own artistic travel journal. You will be amazed at what you produce.

ITINERARY:

  • Athens 1 night
  • Delphi 1 night
  • Meteora 3 nights
  • Zagoria 3 nights
  • Corfu 4 nights

This tour is designed to take in some of the most breathtaking and scenic areas in Greece as well as end with a typical Greek island resort holiday too!

  • Start in the central hotel in Athens for a welcome dinner with the group
  • Unesco world heritage visit overnight to the extraordinary Delphi temple and archaeological site
  • First sketching session after arrival, explore the Delphi site as soon as it opens the next morning to avoid the crowds
  • Marvel at Unesco's World Heritage Meteora staying for 3 nights to immerse yourselves in visits, walks and sketches of this mystical place of perched mountain monasteries
  • Stay 3 nights in the stunning and remote region of the Vikos Gorge in Zagoria in central Greece
  • Sketching the stone villages, bridges and amazing views
  • 4 wonderful nights at the centrally located hotel in Corfu: sketching, relaxing, swimming
  • Shopping each day after thesketching workshops
  • 3 hours of daily sketch tuition and practice as well as daily activities and visits

The tour begins in the hotel in Athens where the group meets at 6 pm on September 1 in 2019. After breakfast on September 13 in 2019 the tour finishes in Corfu where you are free to ferry or fly out with your onward travel plans. The airport is a very short taxi ride from our hotel.


IMPORTANT INFORMATION 


Deposit of $1,000 AUD is required at booking. This is 50% refundable only up until 150 days before tour commencement (4/4/2019). After this date the deposit is non-refundable. We require all our tour participants to have Travel Insurance at time of booking to protect against possible illness cancellation costs.
Check in is after 3 pm in Athens on September 1 in 2019 at the centrally located hotel.
If you would like to see the Acropolis etc., then you can arrive a few days before September 1 in order to experience a few of the sites of Athens. The tour manager can help with suggestions. Our tour ends in Corfu and there is a nearby international airport  which also offers many local flights within Greece.


Greek Odyssey Creative Adventure
Alicia Aradilla