Day 28- Saturday It was hard to imagine yesterday at lunch on Koh Samui that by this morning at 6.30am we would be on another continent (and that our baggage checked in there would also have arrived safely too). All went well except for the 5 hour wait till midnight in Bangkok airport, which is even less interesting than Sydney airport ....not even internet for those with long transits. However, the flight was great. Only half full so everyone who wanted got three seats to sleep on. In any case Thai seem to use airbus, not jumbos and there is much [View Full Entry]

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(once again, I'm not in the writing mood, so here's a quick recap) So today Dave left to go to Paris. I’m sure he’s going to LOVE that city, I know I sure did. In the morning, he went souvenir shopping while I caught up on a little more sleep. Then I walked him to the train station and said goodbye. Back to the solo traveler. Although I love traveling alone, it was pretty damn cool to have some friends to share the experience with. I went back to the hostel to check emails, read up on the latest hockey news, [View Full Entry]

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...... so once 7am came around, I woke the fellas up. I hopped in the shower, finished getting ready, and waited for my friends to finish getting ready. Dave was somewhat well rested since he knocked out earlier, but Eric was hurting……..bad. Tired, hungover, and groggy… I’m sure he didn’t feel that great. After finishing getting ready, we headed to the Termini station and took the Leonardo Express to Rome Fiumicino Airport. Dave was taking a different flight to Athens, so we split up. Also, Eric was leaving at 6:45am the NEXT DAY, but he didn’t feel like paying for a [View Full Entry]

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Hey everyone, oh man….. I feel SOOOOOOOO refreshed after some sleep. My friend Dave woke me up at about 8:30 or so. I told him to come to my room because I knew there was no way I’d wake up if he didn’t knock on my door. So we got ready and headed out to get some breakfast. We had some pretty tasty cheese omelet. After that, we stopped by a store to pick up some water and other beverages before heading to the Acropolis. After hanging out for a little bit and people watching, we entered the Acropolis. Luckily, our [View Full Entry]

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(ok, I'm not really in the writing mood today, so this is gonna be a short one) Oh man, it feels soooooooo good to have AC in a room. All I could keep thinking about as I woke up was how hot the Rome hostel was. This was definitely more comfortable. Dave and I got up, got ready, and went to our local gyro spot and grabbed some breakfast. We then trekked our way to the Temple of Zeus, Hadrian’s Arch, and a couple of lesser sights. In the evening, we were at the hostel and started chatting with some people. [View Full Entry]

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Woohoo!! Guess who went to Greece! Me! Duh... Never in a hundred million thousand gazillion years did I ever think I'd be in Greece and never in three hundred million thousand jagillion years did I think I would love it as much as I did. I LOVE ATHENS! I want to just go back and stay for two weeks and go to all the Greek Islands and walk around in flat sandals and white gauzy skirts and eat bread and olive oil in outdoor cafes. But not olives because I don't really like olives. So dumb ass Natashia who ALWAYS ALWAYS [View Full Entry]

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July 1st -5th Athens Greece The flight was uneventful but Im glad I deiced not to go to malian. There is not much to see and its just like any old big city. I had a little bit of a bus ride from the train station to the airport. I saw a train sati-on there I hope I can figure out how to use it to get to rome. OK about greece the parthenon and all the related Old Greek Roman strucuctors ampatheritors and all the like IT was lots of fun took a tour and explored my self not my [View Full Entry]

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Turns out I haven’t written in my blog for over a month…partly because we haven’t had good access to internet and partly because I am lazy and would rather suntan on the beach - I won’t lie. So, due again to my laziness, I copied most of Kelsey’s blog and am going to post it as my own. I am officially giving credit to her……here it goes: Kelsey and I spent a lot of time over in Transylvania, enjoying the beautiful countryside and amazing castles oozing with history. We visited the castle in Sinaia, called Pelis, where the first king and [View Full Entry]

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After six months of Michelle and Stuart's planning, 1000 odd emails and a lot of saving we are finally in Athens. We took off at 4pm yesterday afternoon and flew to Bangkok, Thailand with Thai Airways. Flight was interesting, I took every alcoholic beverage on offer for the first 2 hours before promptly passing out for the remaining 6 and then woke with a stinging hangover. The passing out proved to be a good thing, Grev didn't pass out at any stage so by the time we got there he was absolutely trashed and slightly obnoxious. Bangkok airport is huge, it [View Full Entry]

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Athens So I made it to Athens fine, in one piece! I actually met lots of nice people that spoke English on the way there, that were Greek, and so they told me lots of good stuff to do in Athens and when I got to Mykonos. I took a bus from the airport which was simple, but then from the bus station had quite a walk to my apartment...that was fun dragging all my luggage! I made the mistake of buying wine when I was in Verona...haha not too smart now I have to drag it all over Europe! Oh [View Full Entry]

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