jessean

Well, we are reaching our last days here in Greece and to be honest, we are both a little homesick. We are having a blast here, but we both think it's time to go home. Time to catch you up on what we've been doing. After Paros and Naxos we went to Santorini- which was awesome. The place we were staying had a pool, so when we got there in the evening we decided to take a dip before bed. All the Greeks thought we were crazy because the water was cold, but we are Canadians so it didn't phase us! When we arrived at Villa Manos (the place we stayed) they offered us homemade wine... well I should say they 'made' us drink it. It was actually pretty good, I think it was wine mixed ... read more

Time sure flies.... We are already in Olympia, and there is lots to catch up on. We didn't have any internet access in Zakynthos. Lets start from the beginning. The night ferry from Corfu to Patras was a lot nicer than our first night ferry! It was much bigger and there were even escalators on it. We had a decent sleep but it was pretty chilly. We had to put on lots of layers, and Jess is just getting over a cold so there was a lot of sneezing etc. (I am almost 100% better..) We arrived in Patras really really early, 5:00am. It was still pretty dark and we had to walk around the entire port to find the exit because everything was fenced in. Finally we got out and we roamed the streets for ... read more

Hi Everyone! It's been a while, we've been busy traveling to our next destination. Early the morning of the 7th we caught a train from Rome to Bari, it took about 6 hours. The Italian countryside was absolutely beautiful, lots of mountains and orchards. Oma would have loved all the colorful flowers we saw. After the train we caught a bus to the port in Bari so that we could catch our ferry. Along the way we met an Italian guy named Bruno... he was pretty interesting to say the least. He was 60 years old and had a brain operation at the age of 28 so he no longer had short term memory. Nevertheless, he was filled with interesting stories and philosophies about life. He had just returned from spending several months in India, a ... read more

Last night we decided it was about time that we figured out how we are getting to our next destination! We booked a ferry from Bari to Corfu online, but had to go to the train station this morning to book a train from Rome to Bari. We got everything sorted out, and we will be leaving Rome on Wednesday morning to journey to Corfu! We got a night ferry, which is good because we didn't have anywhere to stay on the 7th! After we got our transportation in order we headed to the National Museum, actually there are about four national museums, we just went to one. It wasn't half as cool as the Capitoline Museum that we visited later, but we got some funny pictures! After this museum we ventured to Villa Borghese where ... read more

It's about 7:30 am right now, and I couldn't sleep so I made Sean get up. Thought we would add a few more details before we headed out today. We went out last night at about 8:30pm and just sort of wandered around. We grabbed some gelato *woooo*, Jess had coconut and Sean had strawberry. SOOOO GOOD. It was kind of confusing to order though, because everything here is in Italian. Then we walked down a couple main streets, where we soon realized that Rome possibly has the worlds worst driving record. Sean was in heaven though, because almost everyone here drives a scooter or a really sweet compact. We decided to head down to see the Colosseum at night, since it was the closest thing to our hostel, and it was awesome. They light it ... read more