Cortney Crawford

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Cortney Crawford

Cortney's trip to Thailand and China



Europe » Greece » South Aegean » Milos October 15th 2007

We arrived in Milos last night after a trecherous ferry ride from Santorini! The ferry was scheduled to leave at 9:45pm, but arrived about an hour late! We didn't arrive in Milos until almost 2am. The ferry was rocking pretty violently the whole three hour trip. Needless to say, neither Joe or myself were feeling very well by the time we arrived! On arrival we had scheduled "a transport" from the port to our hotel, since we were to be arriving so late. As scheduled, the car was awaiting us when we arrived, with a little sign with "Lemos" on it (that's always fun!). We loaded up our luggage and began the journey of 1 street block to our hotel. Yes, thats right, it was one block! We spent 28 euro to go a block!!! Of ... read more
fishingvillage
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Sarakinikos

Europe » Greece » South Aegean » Santorini October 13th 2007

Day three in Santorini-tomorrow we head to Milos. Our ferry leaves at 9:45pm and arrives in Milos about 1am. I know, its late. But it is the only ferry leaving for Milos this week! Our options were pretty limited! Thursday we went over to Ancient Thira. It is the old (hense "ancient") town center. Thousands of years ago the volcano erupted and preserved the ancient city in lava. No human remains have been found, so it is believed that the people know the eruption was coming and headed for safer territory. We headed to that part of the island in our little Smart car (pictured below). Little did we know the ancient city sits atop a fairly decent "hill". We weren't too certain our little car would make it up the cobblestone winding uphill road. Luckily, ... read more
ontheboat
cortvolcano

Europe » Greece » South Aegean » Santorini October 10th 2007

What a difference between Athens and the islands! It is beautiful here! Joe and I slept late this morning (9:30am), which was good because it was the first night we slept past 6am, but bad because we almost missed our flight to Santorini. With a little luck and lots of running through the metro stations and airport, we made our 12:15 flight. The flight was about 50 minutes. Joe however, was not too happy on the small plane that we took. I reminded him that the other alternative to flying was a 9 hour boat trip. He relctantly agreed the flight was the lesser of two evils. All was worth it though when we finally landed, got our rental car (a Mercedes Smart car-which is WAY cute) and made it to our hotel. Our room sits ... read more
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Europe » Greece » Attica » Athens October 9th 2007

Well, everyone rest easy, my luggage arrived safe and sound yesterday (Monday) as promised. I was gettig sick of the same pair of pants and anxious to wear some make up, so it was nice to walk into our hotel after a long day and have my bag waiting. Yesterday (Monday) we started the day by heading to the Acropolis. Its a good thing we got an early start because it was crowded and HOT! We were at the top of the Acropolis by 9:30am and there was probably 1000 other people up there by then. Not to mention by 10am we were dripping sweat. The temperature is in the low 80's but the humidity is HIGH. The acropolis is in a sersis of about 6 different ruins. For 12 euro we got tickets into each ... read more

Europe » Greece » Attica » Athens October 7th 2007

Hi All! We made it! We are SOOO tired! We hardly slept at all o the plane (not that we didn't try!). Friday night before we left we slept from 2am to 4am. Then we had to get up and head to the airport for our 7am flight. I'd guess maybe 2 hours of sleep is what we got on the plane, which puts us at about 4 hours sleep in the last 48 hours! The good thing about this is we're heading to bed early tonight (probably by 8pm) and should sleep the whole night thru and wake up tomorrow on greek schedule. So, the bad news is my luggage was lost! Joe's made it finr (of course), but mine was either left in San Diego, or left in New York during the transfer. The ... read more

North America » United States » California » San Diego October 6th 2007

We head out tomorrow morning at 7am! We should arrive about 9:30 in Athens on Sunday (which would be midnight Saturday night for all you guys). Talk to you from Greece!... read more




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