Hi! I'm Dave, and I've spent over 20 years exploring this beautiful world of ours mainly by bicycle. I currently live in Athens, Greece and use this travel blog to share my travel experiences.
Welcome to Dave's Travel Pages
Dave's Travel Pages has been online since 2005, and there are literally thousands of travel tips, travel blog posts, and destination guides published here.
I have become known as a down-to-earth blogger and expert in two completely unrelated travel niches. The first is bicycle touring, and the second is Athens and Greece.
I certainly never started out with that in mind – It's funny how life works out!
Athens and Greece Travel Blog
I moved out to Athens in 2015, and decided that I would write a couple of travel blog posts about my new home.
A few years later, there are over 1000 guides, travel tips, and travel blog posts about Athens and Greece on Dave's Travel Pages!
If you are planning a vacation in Greece, I'm sure you are going to find this travel information incredibly useful. If you want to get started, these are the key blog posts:
- Greece travel blogs
- What is Greece known for?
- Best Hotels in Greece
- Best time to visit Greece
- Greece Currency
- Greece itinerary 7 days
- Athens Airport to City Transport
- Athens Travel Guides
- 2 Days in Athens itinerary
- Day trips from Athens
Popular searches: Santorini | Athens | Crete | Mykonos | Milos | Meteora | Naxos | Paros
Greece is a fantastic country to live in, and it's a wonderful opportunity to showcase it as a holiday destination. With great beaches, food, history, and culture, what isn't there to love about Greece?!
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Bicycle Touring Travel Blog
I think that bicycle touring is the perfect way to travel. You can move at a pace slow enough to enjoy everything around you, whilst covering enough distance to move steadily through a region.
It keeps you fit, is eco-friendly, and presents a perfect combination of challenge, adventure, and accomplishment.
It's also a little bit addictive. My first bicycle touring adventure was cycling in New Zealand for 3 months. After that, I cycled from England to Cape Town, cycled from Alaska to Argentina, and cycled from Greece to England.
I've never really kept a track of how much distance it totals, but I guess it is over 40,000 kms by now!
On this site, you'll find detailed blog posts of all my main long distance bike touring trips around the world. Most of these were simply copied over from my diary entries of the day. Use the menus at the top of the page to find my bike touring blogs.
I am also working on producing a series of bicycle touring guides on the most popular bike touring subjects, which will be continuously added. I figured that I might as well share what knowledge I've accumulated over the years, so you can avoid the mistakes I have made!
You'll find an eclectic mix such as a look into bicycle valve types, butterfly handlebars, and the best saddles for bikepacking and bike touring.
If you're planning a bike tour around the world, check out this article on how much does it cost to cycle around the world, I wish you happy tailwinds!
Trending on Dave's Travel Pages
Here's some of the most popular travel blogs with readers visiting Dave's Travel Pages at the moment.
This travel blog post highlights the best places to stay in Santorini, including Fira, Oia, Imerovigli, Perissa, Kamari and more. In addition to which areas to stay on Santorini, You will find luxury hotels with infinity pools and hot tubs right on the caldera cliff, but you will also find cheap hotels and rooms to let by the seaside villages.
A useful guide to using public transport to get around Greece. Includes how to Greek island hop by ferry, how to use the KTEL bus networks, getting around by train and using the Athens metro system.
You've heard of Santorini, seen the photos of blue domed churches and whitewashed houses, but where exactly is Santorini? It's time to find out...
Greece is known for the beautiful beaches and ancient sites, and so people forget that it has some incredibly interesting cities as well. You know Athens and Thessaloniki of course, but what about the other cities in the Greek mainland and islands. If you're an urban adventurer in search of cosmopolitan delights, start planning a city trip in Greece here!
When you're desperate for some winter sun, where can you head to in Europe? Some of the southern countries are still warm, but perhaps the Canary islands weather is going to be more appealing. Here's a look at where you can go and enjoy the sun in the European winter.
You might not be getting much beach time in January and February in Greece, but it can be a good time to visit for museums and archaeological sites. If you're a digital nomad, you'll definitely find places to stay more affordable, and the rhythms of life more authentic.
Start preparing for your next big cycling adventure! Riding the Pacific Coast Highway from Canada to Mexico is a great experience, and you'll meet plenty of other bike touring enthusiasts along the way. Click through to read about my own experiences, and see if there's anything useful you can apply to your own bicycle touring preparations.
Destination Guides
It's not all about Greece and cycling though.
In addition to the travel blog posts which cover my own travels, I've created plenty of destination guides, city break ideas, and inspirational travel articles for destinations all over the world.
These cover a mix of backpacking trips and short city breaks. In fact, I am working on a project to produce a series of city guides. More about that in the future!
To read my destination guides, just take a look through the menus at the top of the page. I'm updating the travel blog almost every day with newly written guides, articles and posts, so I'm sure that every time you visit, you will find something new!
Some key countries that you might be interested in include:
Why did I start travel blogging?
When I started Dave's Travel Pages back in 2005, it wasn't even called blogging! I classified my site as a travelogue – somewhere I could chronicle my different adventures around the world. As time went on, the term ‘blog' became more used, and so I adopted the term.
In the beginning, I used Dave's Travel Pages as a means of sharing my travel adventures with family and friends. Rather than sending everyone an email (and not everyone had emails back then!), I aimed to have a central place they could come and visit.
At some point, I noticed that I was receiving visitors that were neither family or friends. These were people I had never met, who had somehow discovered my blog through this thing called Google.
All of a sudden, I was writing for a bigger audience, and so started adding more useful information and travel tips into the blogs of my personal experiences.
Today, hundreds of thousands of visitors from all over the world visit my travel blog every month. It's still humbling when I think about it!
I try to stay true to my core values though. I aim to take the path less travelled, share my experiences, and inspire other people to enjoy a life of travel. After all, if I can be a travel blogger, anyone can!
How to explore this travel blog
Get started by using the links above depending on your particular travel interest. You will also see a menu system at the top of the screen. (If you are using a phone, it might be compacted down in the ‘hamburger' sign).
From here, you really do start to go down the rabbit hole… I hope you are ready for the journey!
Just looking for a little travel inspiration? Check out my list of Wanderlust Movies and collection of the best travel quotes.
You also might want to spend some time on these pages:
Hey you, let's connect!
Want to get hold of me? Send an email to – dave (at) davestravelpages.com. I respond to every email I get sent, but if I am bicycle touring or travelling, it might not be the same day!
We can also get social! You'll find me on all the major social media sites, and I've put those links below. Thanks for visiting my travel blog, and happy tailwinds!
