Blogs from Kefalonia, Ionian Islands, Greece, Europe - page 3

It was a Friday afternoon when every normal Hungarian sighs with a relief that the weekend is here! It doesn't matter anymore that I'm working on the weekends as well, I know this before, I don't mind. But knowing that the Greek Gods truly do hate me... that actually hurts. I needed to move - as you might have already guessed it from the title of this post. Let's start from the beginning - shortly though. You already know my Slovakian colleagues. Well, three of them who sleep together in one room got into an argument and from now on they are not BFFs. Meaning that they cannot live under the same roof - one of them, the one that's feelings have been hurt: she needs to move. By the time I finished working, everything was ... read more

Today was my third workday but the very first one where I actually did the cleaning all by myself! Of course, I got less rooms than the others who are here for nearly a month now and they are really good: they get 11-14 rooms a day. I got 6 today and even though I finished before 15.30, around 13.30 there were some problems… But not huge problems. I had a room where I just needed to make some order as the guests are still there. This means that if the bathroom is filthy I clean it, I make the bed, empty the ashtrays, change the towels and change the bag in the toilet bin. By the way, I don’t know how many of you are aware but Greeks don’t put the toilet paper in the ... read more

Here I am writing from the island of Kephalonia, from it’s sleepy town, Skala and from the obviously existing and as beautiful as on the pictures: Port Skala Hotel Village. I report that I have arrived safely, I’m alive and I can hear the sea rumbling – so that must be real as well. The journey itself was unbearable. For real. Okay, it may be the weariness talking right now, although I’ve been amongst the luckiest on the coach: no one sat beside me, I sat totally alone. You may think „how awesome is that!” – but do not. It makes sleeping even harder as you think you have more space to stretch over – but it is never enough. So the longest period of time slept through was 1,5 hours and that was the maximum ... read more

Day 63 This morning, Isabelle, Jenn and I had planned to go on a 8am run, but since it was raining I guess Jenn must have slept in and Isabelle and I just did some on-the-spot work outs in the hallway, undercover between our two rooms. I worked up a bit of a sweat because we got out her jump rope, and took a shower. When I finished mine, the cleaning lady just came in and it was perfect timing for her to clean the bathroom, then my bedroom. Just past 9am we headed down to Neil’s who was making us crepes for breakfast. He made us a savoury crepe each, filled with cheese, bacon and tomatoes, and I added ketchup to taste since we have leftover ketchup from last night’s dinner. Then he made 2 ... read more

Day 61 This morning I got up automatically at 8:40am, got changed and Isabelle and I went out for a run at 9am. Jenn was too tired to come out with us, but we wanted to get out before it got too hot. It was suppose to be close to 27 degrees today and we wanted to enjoy it all! Our run lasted just under an hour with our stretching and workout, because I wanted to get back for 10am for a skype date I was suppose to have. The date never ended up happening, so instead Isabelle and I made a hash for breakfast and ate it while we booked hostels for Athens and Paris. By 12noon, my date still wasn’t online, so we decided to get out and enjoy the sun. It was already ... read more