We arrived Chios around 4:30am. We drove off the boat and were soon informed that the next boat leaving for Turkey would not leave at 8am as scheduled but at 4pm. They told us the boat was “broken”. We made the best of it and spent the day exploring the town. We finally loaded the car around 3:30 then watched as the one other car squeezed on board this tiny little ferry. About 45min. later we arrived in Cesme, Turkey. We got off the boat and were directed straight to the customs office. This, by the way, is the first time [View Full Entry]

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There are many Cretans living in Chios and they have a radio program each week playing Cretan music. Rena's friend works at the station and organized a party to celebrate their 300th programming. Lucky for me, we got invited to the party. I got a little taste of Cretan dancing. Funny is really looks like River Dance. The dance is all leg work and no upper body movement. My friends made fun of me because I was moving my upper body and they told me I dance like a loose girl. Well, few years of Salsa dancing will do that to [View Full Entry]

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The size of Chios is comparable to the island of Montreal. Though we can probably cross the widest area of Montreal in about 3 hours, on Chios, it is a totally different story. The island is mountainous and most of the sites on Chios are on different altitude, thus it is harder to estimate the time from one site to another. We spend an entire day driving around and only covered a small portion of the island. Actually, probably just ten percent of the island. From sea level up to the mountains, the trip was quite an adventure in itself. The [View Full Entry]

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After buying groceries for the next three days, as Sunday all stores are closed everywhere in Greece and Monday being a holiday, we spent the day at Mirmingi village, home village to Christina. It is a small village with about fifty inhabitants, all of whom are over 30 years of age. Most young people have moved out into the cities and only return during holidays. Though there are bigger villages around Chios, Mirmingi has a simple charm. Quiet, quaint, the village is unassuming and is reminiscent of a simpler life before the craziness of modernity. Walking around the winding paths that [View Full Entry]

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With the flight cancellation and delays, I was 2 days off schedule. Fortunately, the ferry to Chios was at 4pm, so I could sleep in and recover from the crazy two days of travel. I didn't do much in Athens, we took it slow on Friday morning. Christina's car needed repair, so we took her car to the Suzuki garage and left it there. Funny thing is, the day I arrived in Greece is the day the electric company union decided to go on strike, because all quotes were on the computer the garage could not give us a quote for [View Full Entry]

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It's amazing what a difference a 45 minute boat ride can make! I left Tuesday night for the closest Grecian island to Cesme, which is called Chios. Each time I asked for a map or a guidebook, people could only offer me vague maps of the entire island, so I was really curious what this small town and island might behold! Honestly, I've always wanted to do a Grecian island cruise of some sort, so thought it was a good opportunity to catch a glimpse of one, if only for a few nights! When I arrived, i was cracking up - [View Full Entry]

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Miután délelőtt megnéztük Kavalát, elindultunk Keramotiba, hogy onnan komppal átmenjünk Thassos szigetére. A kompok elég gyakran járnak és kb. fél óra alatt oda lehet érni. Ha jól emlékszem, összesen 12 eurót fizettem a 4 diákjegyért és a kocsiért. A sziget nagyon szép, mert a tengerből szinte kiugrik a hegy, melynek csúcsát ekkor még hó fedte. Először körülnéztünk a sziget "fővárosában", Thassosban vagy más néven Limenasban. A múzeum zárva volt. Az ókori város romjait megtaláltuk ugyan, de szegény Alex majdnem sírva fakadt, mert az egész egy nagy mocsárban volt és a romok körül kecskék legelésztek. Aztán felmentünk a színházhoz, amit éppen felújítottak, [View Full Entry]

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A quick run down of my travels from when I last left off (on the boat from Kushadasi to Samos)...... Shan and I caught the ferry from Kusadasi and arrived in Samos more than a little hungover from our nights adventures in Kusadasi and decided that given there was a boat going in a coupe of hours to Ikaria, an Island we realy wanted to visit, despitre our hangovers from the night before we had better get on it.......best decision of the trip we made. Although at the time we were both craving a bed, hanging out for another 3-4 hours [View Full Entry]

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