Corfu! Well...not quite. Jeff and I went to the airport after spending our 2nd day in Athens. We arrived expecting to leave at 7pm on a 1 hour flight. Little did we know that Olympic Airlines had changed our flight and never told us. They randomly changed it to 11:45pm. And then on top of that, it was delayed until 12:45. We found out later that this is typical. Armed with our 6 euro meal voucher, Jeff and I found a table where we could plug in our computers and do some work. We got some airport food, and found a [View Full Entry]

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Now Greece is serviced by a pretty vast network of ferries and we planned to catch one from Patras to Venice. To do this we first needed to catch one of Greece's very unreliable trains. The train was clearly to small for the amount of passengers trying to use it because each time we stopped more people would get on causing quite cramped conditions for all aboard. We also managed to strike a day where there was construction on the tracks so were then advised we were to catch a bus to the next station in order to continue the journey. [View Full Entry]

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Sailing is a whole other thing here, on this boat, than what i first learned five years ago on the Harvey Gamage doing Ocean Classroom no dock watch no bow watch each cabin has it's own head no hauling on lines no furling sails what's a winch? lines lie on the deck for longer than i'm comfortable with, uncoiled no charting our plot "see that island? that's where we're headed?" fresh water shower dinner on shore every night and although it feels cushy it is so nice to be on the water again so nice to feel like i'm on the [View Full Entry]

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Hello guys and girlies! Just a quick blog to say that ive just got off the yacht (though we are sleeping on it again tonight) after 3 days around the Med sailing. First stop was South Corfu then we sailed the next day to Mortos and partied on our private beach with waterpark just for us! we were all drinking rum etc on the dock til the early hours this morning and some ending up sleeping on the beach! Was great and we got our first lie-in in a few weeks because it was one of the guys birthdays! we then [View Full Entry]

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Hey everyone. It seems like a long time since we have last written, but its only been a coupe days. We have access finally, so we thought that we would fill you in on the past couple of days. But first - thanks for all the comments guys, they have been great. Also, a Happy Father's Day to our Dads. OK, so.... we last left off on our saga when we were spending our last night in athens. The next day we headed out to catch our bus to corfu. So the website said that there was a 10am bus that [View Full Entry]

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Well about 70 days in and still no beach, so we decided now is the time. We boarded a plane to Athens on our way to the Ionian island of Corfu to relax and hopefully not sunburn. Athens has lots to see but is overpriced and not the cleanest city so we only stayed the night.We were off to the island which supposedly was created by posiedon coming out of the water and cutting it away from the mainland with his trident. We arrive early at The Pink Palace, a resort for backpackers, offering cheap accomodation with free meals.(and as the [View Full Entry]

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Although we were sad to be leaving Rome, Tamsin and I headed off to Bari by train to catch an overnight ferry to Corfu Island in Greece. Now, sleeping on the floor of a moving ferry is quite possibly the worst thing i've ever tried to do. The reason we slept on the floor is our Rail Passes allows us "free deck passage" which means exactly that, and the price to upgrade to a dorm room was a bit too high unfortunately. So after pretty much no sleep and very little food we arrive at the port in Corfu. Good [View Full Entry]

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Sorry for not having written for so long, we've been busy! We arrived in Kefalonia last week at the charming harbour town of Sami. A real change from the Cyclades as it was very quiet, almost spookily so! After a bit of trouble finding accommodation we found some nice apartments just off the seafront. Sami was a great place to start as close by there was one of Kefalonia's most famous landmarks, the Melissani Cave. Basically this is an underwater lake in a cave whose roof has fallen in. You get rowed across the 100 ft deep lake and it's simply [View Full Entry]

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Hey all! Well, Andrea and I have finally made it to sunny beaches and at least relatively cheap prices. We're here on the Greek island of Corfu in the Ionian Sea and we couldn't be happier. We've been soaking up the sun and relaxing, which is nice because the last two months sometimes felt like a sight seeing/museum marathon. We think we'll be here in Corfu for about 8-9 days, I may finish my Open Water Diving training, but then we may just spend the whole time at the beaches. But for now, I'll get back to where I left off [View Full Entry]

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Hey...First off thanks to everyone for the birthday wishes. I got your cards and messages and I appreciate it. For the birthday a bunch of us all went out and pub hopped around town. Needless to say, I survived the big 21 and had a great time. I'm looking forward to getting back to the states where being 21 has more perks than in europe! Only 14 days until I head back home so hopefully i'll make the best of whats left of my time here. Anyway the pictures attached are from our trip to the Greek island of Corfu. We [View Full Entry]

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