Meg And Mr O

Food, recipe and travel thoughts of myself and Mr O. Based mainly in South Wales and Cardiff, but travelling all over the World (hopefully)!

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Greece Post 4: Arriving in Athens and the New Hotel.

Greece Post 4: Arriving in Athens and the New Hotel.

Having spent a peaceful couple of nights in the mountains we decided to head back to the hustle and bustle of the city. So we meandered down out of the hills and took a long and winding route via the coast to Athens. A friend had advised before we took this trip ‘Don’t drive in Athens’. I though ‘How bad can it be? I’m sure it I’ll be fine?’ We were soon to find out….. We had arranged to drop our…

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Greece Post 3: Ancient Delphi and more Arachova.

Greece Post 3: Delphi and our arrival in Athens!

After a lazy buffet breakfast at the Ellinon Thea, we headed off down the hill to the beautiful town of Delphi to explore the ruins of the ancient sanctuary. Weaving down the mountain for 10 km, we spotted the ruins we’d completely missed the night before, on the hillside adjacent to the road. I naively assumed that such an important historical site would have an ample sized car park for all…

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Greece Post 2: Palamidi Fortress and Ellinon Thea, Arachova

After another lovely restful night in Nafplio 1841, we awoke early to set off up the steps to Palamidi Fortress. There is a fair bit of speculation online about exactly how many steps there are, 857? 913? 961? 999? Who knows, and I certainly wasn’t planning on counting them when we had a gorgeous view to admire….. We must have been underestimating our fitness levels as we’d allowed a full hour to…

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Greece Post 1: Nafplio 1841, Mycenae and Epidaurus

Pretty much as soon as we returned from our two week holiday to Croatia last year, I started planning a Greek trip of a lifetime for this year’s vacation.  Mr O and I have visited a couple of Greek Islands in the past, but had never explored the Mainland before. Throw into the mix the fact I’ve always wanted to go to Santorini too and we had the starting of an itinerary. So we flew off to Athens…

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Going to the chapel......

A few weeks ago myself and Mr O visited Chapel 1877 in Cardiff. You may recall, we visited for the Champagne Cocktail Masterclass a few months ago (https://megandmro.wordpress.com/2015/03/10/champers-darling-chapel-1877-cardiff/) and we were both keen to revisit to try a full meal after enjoying our nibbles and Champagne previously. Luckily  for us Travelzoo have been doing some great voucher…

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Gorgeous for Greece.....Final Post!

Ok, this last week has been a little haywire. I’ve tried to stick to my diet and fitness as much as possible, but sometimes life gets in the way unfortunately. Last Saturday we had friends round for a tapas evening. I tried my best to not ‘go crazy’ but ended up consuming about 2000 calories worth of food and drink……. In one meal!!! And in all honesty I didn’t stuff myself silly, just goes to…

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Gorgeous for Greece Days.......I've lost count!

Hey there! I know I haven’t posted much this week, but I just wanted you to know that I’m still on track! I won’t bore you with all the details, but I have kept under my net 1200 calorie goal all week and I’m chuffed to say I have now lost 5lb and a total of 5 inches! Next weigh day is tomorrow – fingers crossed for a little more weight loss! More importantly I’m feeling better, more toned,…

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Gorgeous for Greece Days 13 and 14

I think I’ve decided to post every other day, as I’m sure you’re all getting bored of me saying PB and Banana for breakfast again………zzzzzzz 😴😴! Well actually, I have a shocker! No PB and Banana oatcakes in this post, although all those ingredients feature in something else pretty awesome later in this post! Day 13: As I’d mentioned in my previous post, I’d been feeling a bit icky all day Saturday…

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Gorgeous for Greece Days 11 and 12

Sorry, sorry, sorry! My aim to blog everyday about this bikini body diet has failed! I’d like to say it’s because I’ve been doing something exciting and fun, but the truth is, I e been feeling a little bleugh! Friday (day 10) was pretty good. I had my usual PB and banana oatcakes for breakfast, and a lovely tabbouleh salad for lunch (Recipe here):…

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Gorgeous for Greece Day 10........and update no. 2!

Ok, so I promised updates every 5 days, and today is day 10 so I guess that means I have to weigh! Eeek! Here are the stats: Weight: 154.5 lb (3.5 lb loss) Hips: 42 inches (1.5 inch loss) Waist: 31 inches (1 inch loss) Bust: 36 inches (1 inch loss) Ok, I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a little dissapointed that I’ve only lost 1/2lb since day 5, but that’s why it’s so important to measure yourself…

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Gorgeous for Greece Day 9

Today has been a beautiful sunny day here and that definitely helps with the frame of mind. I was determined today to get out and do some more exercise while the weather was still great, so more on that later. Breakfast

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Gorgeous for Greece Day 8

So here we go into week two! Breakfast As much as I’ve been enjoying lots of different breakfasts, sometimes you can’t beat a good old bowl of cereal! So today I had a 30g bowl of Bran Flakes topped with a good handful of blueberries and raspberries. I’m still using koko milk as I find it really creamy, but it’s still about the same calories as skimmed milk. 197 calories I also had a couple of…

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Gorgeous for Greece Day 7

Ok, so after today I will have made it a full week of eating healthy, filling food and doing my best to attempt the first exercise DVD in my life. Being totally honest, the food bit has been fine. I love cooking, so don’t find it difficult to make tasty but healthy dishes. I’d be lying if I didn’t say I missed a nice glass of wine or two on the weekend, but other than that it’s been pretty easy.…

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Gorgeous for Greece Day 6

As I mentioned yesterday, we had dinner at our friends house last night, so I had no choice over my meal! However I could choose what I drank……water! I figured there was no point in adding empty calories from alcohol as well. The delicious menu consisted of French onion soup, with cheesy crouton (oops!), Slow roasted brisket, veggies and Dauphinois potatoes (double oops!), and key lime pie…

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Gorgeous for Greece day 5 and ......... update!

Gorgeous for Greece update!

As promised, I said I would update my stats on day 5. I know a lot of people say you should only weigh once a week at the most, but I find I need the added inspiration to keep going. Of course sometimes that can backfire if I haven’t lost as much as hoped, but I always try to make it as accurate as possible by weighing the same way (naked, of course) and at the same time of day (first thing in…

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Gorgeous for Greece Day 4

Day 4 and it’s Friday! The toughest thing today is going to be not having a cold crisp glass of Vino tonight 😥😥. Oh well I can enjoy plenty watching the sunset in Santorini. Today’s menu: Breakfast: Oatcakes with PB and banana (see Day 2 post here for the quantities: https://megandmro.wordpress.com/2015/05/27/gorgeous-for-greece-day-2/) Calories: 335 Lunch: Grated carrot, courgette and beansprout…

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Gorgeous for Greece Day 3

So far, so good! The diet has been fairly straightforward and easy so far. Lots of yummy food, but I’m not going to lie the exercise video is killing me! I’ve been walking like John Wayne today 😪 Anyway, onto today’s food: Breakfast Strawberry, blueberry and coconut smoothie 100g Strawberries 50g Blueberries 200ml of Koko or Alpro Coconut or Almond Milk 1 tsp honey  Bung it all in a blender,…

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