Blogs from South Aegean, Greece, Europe - page 73

up until this point in our trip, my expectations of what this trip would look like were completely off. in italy, we spent more time running from sight to sight, and less time meeting new people. because we camped, we were somewhat secluded from the rest of the 'hosteling world.' but here it is different. Greece has been more of our relax and have lots of fun (not that we didnt have fun in italy, because we totally did, but it was very different) part of our trip. we sleep in, stay up late (nightlife doesnt shut down around here. Mykonos people are in clubs until the sun rises in the morning, and Santorini, things close around 4 or 5am.) Our hostel is perhaps the epitome of hosteling experience. We are in Perissa Beach, Santorini, which ... read more

Well here I am - nearly at the end of my 6th week here!! How time flies when you're having fun!! Have had a few nights out, some of the photos from one of them are on the website www.photoshow.net/callefix. I'm in the background of some of them, the site does take a while to download them all if you're not on broadband and it takes a while to get through all of them, so would not suggest you do it it work time!!!!!!! We had a day out in Afandou last week (there was another girl from the bank over on holiday - won't divulge her name!!), went to the beach during the day and had a swim and sunbathe and then went up into the town at night with the idea of having a ... read more

Ios is known as the party island of Greece and so far we’ve mostly seen the town at night, but today we planned to explore the town during the daylight. Chora, Ios’s main town is a typical of the Cyclades with whitewashed buildings and is full of steps and small alleys, curtained doorways and small courtyards. On the main thoroughfares there are the jewelers, souvenir shops and, of course, the clubs. Ios has lots of churches; as a matter of fact it claims to have 365 churches, one for each day of the year. In Chora in a plateia just off the main road is the modern Orthodox Cathedral of Ios named Evangelismos (Annunciation). It’s an large whitewashed building with the traditional blue domes, very beautiful. Nearby is the church of Agia Ekaterini. First we picked ... read more

We have had a good day here in Naxos. It is getting hotter now and the winds have subsided so we really have to be carefull of not getting sunburn. We didn't get here until after 11am. We have been taking the high speed ferries and they have been great to travel on...less motion over the sometimes rough seas, plus they are faster as well. Thankfully when we arrived there was a bus here from our campground here at Maragas. We are about 20 minutes out of the main town of Hora. We were going to camp in one of the tent cabins, but we found a studio on the same grounds for only 2e more so we took it....it still is not very nice and we feel like we will have another mosquito evening attack ... read more

We decided to drive out to what is allegedly Homer’s Tomb in Plakotos in the Northern part of the island today. The road was partly paved (oil and gravel) and part dirt; weird. Homer’s Tomb is on a point of land surrounded by hundreds, maybe even thousands of bee hives. When we got out of the car the buzzing was really loud. You walk out a long trail from the parking area to Homer’s Tomb. There’s an ancient stone engraved with writing, but really no other information there, basically just a stone tomb overlooking the sea. We probably only stayed about 30 minutes or so, the view was spectacular but there really wasn’t much else there. Steve built a little stone structure because he wanted to and I got a picture of it. We headed back ... read more

Milos We were one day delayed arriving in Milos after our flight was cancelled although it didn't matter much, Olympic airways putting us up in a pretty nice hotel. After a short flight on a very small plane (much to my horror) we arrived . We stayed in Adamas which is a pretty little port town, a few km's down the hill from Plaka, the capital. Visited some beautiful beaches; Papafragas, Plathiena and Paliochori in one day with a little car we rented. Another day was spent wandering about town and at Lagada beach while Brendan and Paul scooted around. Had some of the best Greek food we've had so far. Visited the ancient roman theatre that is in pretty run down condition but offers spectacular views across the water. Milos is a beautiful little ... read more