Blogs from South Aegean, Greece, Europe - page 77

Rhodes - ---- Yes. Another dated blog. We are presently on the island of Rhodes (also typed Rodas). It is one of the southern most islands in Greece and is very close to Turkey. The town of Rhodes is located on the island Rhodes. ----------------------- 5/14/09 Lily: Today I saw a castle were knights lived! It was fun and big! I had the BEST TIME EVER.I GOT VERY HOT. We are right now in Rhodes. It is an island. The knights who lived there were crusaders. A crusader is a knight that went to fight in a holy war. I am having a sad time about leaving Greece, as we are about to go to Turkey. And I am surprised that mom is finishing our Greece information in Turkey, because we didn’t get it all done ... read more

I found a new favourite activity; beach hopping via ATV's. I absolutely love Greece. Like, everyone should spend two weeks here. THe people are friendly, the crowd is young, and camping hostels are SO MUCH FUNNN!!! So, this is going to be a condensed blog of my days, since I have to play catch-up. I'm in London now, and internet is much more affordable.. I think I left the story at flying to Santorini. It was a 20 min plane ride, we bought our tiockets at the airport and we made up over 50% of the passengers! The airports in greece bus you to the plane on the tarmack.. a bit of a different experience. May 7, 2009 Santorini!!! Today we dook a day tour around the Santorini islands. Karen was feeling ill, so she stayed ... read more

Today is my first day off since I've been on the Island. I was begging to worry it would never happen. I'm really excited to go do a little exploring on my own. Since I've been here I pretty much have not left the side of my housemate/coworker Alex. It been nice having a personal tour guide but at the same time part of my wanting to come out here was to do some exploring on my own. I'm not sure if he quite gets that and it seem like everyone here wants to protect me like a little baby. I appreciate it in many ways but after two weeks now I'm starting to go a little crazy. SO today came in the nick of time! I don't know how far I will get today ... read more

We skipped breakfast so we would not have to get up quite so early for our sailing today with Ted Stathis of Santorini Sailing. We also had our bright little yellow Fiat Panda delivered from what turned out to be a much better experience that Thrifty. Although on the last it all turned out good and the guy told me there was no issue as they had just missed it on the review. I would have to believe though that if I had merely acquiesced to their pointing out the "new" scratches, I would most likely have been charged for it, so renters beware, be thorough and be a pest about it, it will save you a lot of trouble. We pointed out so many knicks and scratches to our guy in Santorini that he joked ... read more

Hey Everyone! It’s been a while since my last blog and I have so much to write about. This is going to take a while to write about everything so I am going to break it up in little chapters by place. I left Paris early Monday morning for a 3 hour flight to Athens. After getting to the airport we took the bus into town, but stupid me of course wrote down every hostel address except for the first one in Athens, aka the most important one to know. Have no fear; it only took about an hour of wandering around and asking at least 10 people to figure out where we were going. But wow Greece! Greece is unlike any other place I've ever been too. Athens is a big city, but it’s still ... read more