Greeting from Sunny Paros in the Cyclades in the Aegean Sea. Absolute paradise as you can see. We took an over night ferry and will be here in Paros exploring the historic back streets, eating seafood at cafes, swimming in the warm seas and relaxing. I loved Asia, but the Greek Isles are paradise! [View Full Entry]

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Day 31- Tuesday Yesterday, as I hope you all have noticed, I finally managed to add the photos because I finally found myself in an up to date internet shop with appropriate connections. So no message, just a backlog of photos, most with rather trite captions as I was in a hurry. As an aside...another trap for novices...we had booked our very nice and highly convenient hotel at the base of the Acropolis from the tourist agent at Athens airport and paid with a voucher. 85 euros! which we thought was expensive but couldn't be helped. We were so pleased with [View Full Entry]

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Mike, the owner of Ios Resort was waiting at the port to pick us up and gave us a quick tour of the main strip before taking us to the hotel. It's 2.5km from the port to the town and then 2.5km from the town to the beach, all on the same road. The hotel itself was only a 5 minute walk from town which is another one of those Greek island towns that sits on the side of a steep hill. Once you get into the right part of town it is all bar and clubs, all of which are [View Full Entry]

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Aneliess and Amy’s 2 week vacation through Italy and Greece. First stop was Pisa where, after we took a taxi ride that cost way too much, we were eaten by bugs and saw all the sites in about an hour. We saw the oldest botanical gardens in Europe (not the biggest or most beautiful) and drank cappuccino for 1euro. Next was a stop on the 4th of July in Firenze or Florence, Italy. Our tour guide didn’t show up, but we managed to find our way around the town without him. Big churches, old bridges, good food in cute plazas and [View Full Entry]

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After 8 hours of boating torture we finally arrived at Santorini more then happy to be getting back to dry land. A short cab ride and we were soon at the hotel, Ira Studios No2 (Nikita's Appts). From the outside it looked beautiful but Nikita, although a lovely guy has falen a little behind on the maintenance of late. Still, it was great just to have a bed and warmish shower at that point. The rest of our group arrived throughtout the day, including Shain and Kim who it was great to see after 18 months abroad. That night 6 of [View Full Entry]

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Happy Birthday to Me! Thank you to all of you who sent me birthday wishes on Sunday! It’s been a pretty cool celebration for me this year since not only am I celebrating it with Kels in Greece, but we also had Reed and Sarah here visiting us for four days! They arrived last Tuesday and we had an awesome time! The afternoon they arrived Kelsey surprised me with CAESARS!!! Yup that’s right…Vodka, Clamato, Worcestershire, Tabasco, Celery Salt, Limes, and fresh celery…in Rhodes! Fantastic! Thanks to Tiff who brought everything from Canada last month! What a tr [View Full Entry]

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Santorini, Thira, Stroggili, or Santa Irini, are many different names for the same beautiful island I visited with my wife for our honeymoon. After reading hundrends of reviews regarding Santorini island I concluded that this was the right choice for our Honeymoon. The next step as you can understand was to book the flight tickets and one of the nicest hotel possible. The first part was easy, since two greek airline companies had about twice everyday direct flights from Athens to Santorini airport. But, the second part.. yes, how to choose the right hotel among hundrends one? Therefore, I star [View Full Entry]

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Napoli was a dirty crazy city. Totally run by the Mafia. Its dirty coz no one picks up the rubbish. Word is the Mafia used to run it, but they got kicked out. So now no one wants to do it, because that would be stepping on the mafia's turf, and that's not conducive to living a long life. The EU contributed about 20 million euros to helping the city's rubbish problem... which promptly disappeared. So now the garbage from the markets that overtake the main street (north africans selling fake Gucci which is mafia produced) out the front of where [View Full Entry]

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Just thought you might like to see a few images of this island. I am sure that you are already over reading my bits of news but perhaps the photos are worth sending. Love Hil [View Full Entry]

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