Blogs from Santorini, South Aegean, Greece, Europe - page 28

Thursday Sept 11, 2008 After anxiously awaiting the end of classes all day, finally finished up at 2:30pm. Came home, my bath tub laundry was dry! Success! Brought it all inside, did some homework, took a quick shower and packed for the weekend. Left the apartment as soon as Leslie was done class, about 6pm, for our 8pm ferry. For some strange reason, I didn’t notice until we got on the boat that my watch was 40 minutes fast, so the whole way to Piraeus (the port) I was practically running, wondering why my room mates weren’t the slightest bit worried that we were cutting it pretty close lol. We spent the night on the boat, watching strange Greek soap operas - one had a man w/ a shirt asking “Got Meth?”…interesting… - met some cute ... read more

Yasu, here I am in the Greek Islands. Sorry for the long absence but things have been getting pretty wild around here. I could write about everything that I have been doing but I am getting a little bored of recounting every little detail. I guess I will just have to hope that the pictures do the talking at the end of the tour. So I am going to fast forward from Barcelona through the French Riveria, past Venice and I am going to write about Corfu, the first of the Greek Islands that we visited. We got there via overnight ferry so we were greeted to the island first thing in the morning. When we got there we were given the keys to the hire cars that we organised. Danny, Chris, Lewy, Dugong, Pete, Stevie, ... read more

My contiki tour of Greece 6/08. Overall I had a really wonderful time in Greece & Turkey. Definitely the highlight of the trip was visiting Oia, in Santorini. Unfortunately I had only 1 hr to see it, so I took as many pictures as I could. I am by no means a pro photographer, but it is definitely one of my passions. Hope you enjoy the pictures and feel free to ask any questions.... read more

Hello friends and family! Let us start by saying "CONGRATS AMANDA AND KRAEMER!!!!!" For anyone who doesn't know, two of our closest friends just got engaged! (one is "the naked guy"). As for us the last few days on Santorini have been spectacular. Yesterday we attended an island and wine tour. All the local wines were pretty good, but Tamara and I weren't too keen on the Vincento. We watched the beautiful sunset from a public bench, while enjoying a gyro and beer (Tamara also enjoyed a couple bird poops... no wonder no one was sitting there!). Today we took an amazing sailboat trip to the south edge of the island where we saw the white and red sand beaches, then we headed to the active volcano about 100km east of Santorini. When we docked at ... read more

Day 37 It is so hard to keep track of time and dates. Today is Monday, I think, and we are off to Crete this evening. About three hours by boat. We have just spent the final two nights of our island hopping package on the famed Santorini. It truly is quite spectacularly amazing, with the towns perched precariously on the cliff tops. Today there are six cruise ships anchored in the bay below. One gets the impression if another shipped arrived and off-loaded say another 500 passengers into another 10 huge buses the whole show might overbalance and topple into the sea without another earthquake. Being so famous, Santorini is therefore more popular and consequently more expensive. Our seven night package plus ferry tickets cost us 360 euros. We had no way of knowing at ... read more