Blogs from South Aegean, Greece, Europe - page 83

034 - Greece - Santorini, Hydra, and Athens 10/21/08 - 11/25/08 Picture Perfect written by Hannah The question on everyone's mind when we left San Diego for parts unknown was “when will we see you again?”, especially so for my mom. After 9 months of waiting to see where we could meet she finally 'sacrificed' and bought her ticket for Greece. Those who know me will say I live a pretty full life and am involved in many different things, well, I learned it from my mom, and true to form she had 1,001 things to do before she jumped on the flight for her first visit to Greece. Sadly she could only get away for 8 days, so our trip happened in fast-forward. We had an additional guest, one of my mom's friends, Katie, who ... read more

Attempting to catch the *&$%# Ferry to Crete “I tell you no take the feddy, the feddies here is sheet.” From Louisa, the morning after the night from hell. It’s not like we weren’t warned…every reference by locals to our taking the ferry to Crete was accompanied by a smirk and “eef the boat show up…” I have restrained myself from editing my last blog in hindsight, where I wrote about being so excited about our Grand Adventure! We arrived back in Old Town around 7 and headed for our fav little place the Walk Inn for a shared plate of Pasta Carbonara and Greek Salad. I posted only one blog and decided it was much more interesting to chat with the barkeep Sophia than send another blog to you! Gord had departed to deliver our ... read more

Good Afternoon from Kiotari, We picked up our rental car outside the main entrance in Rodos and, after some fierce negotiations, managed to pay the price we were originally told! We like this car better, the gear shift is better placed…here’s hoping it will make for better shifting!!! Headed south from Rodos Old Town (from now on I’ll call it just Rodos, as the people here do) and immediately felt better for getting out of town! Drove for about 30 km’s and stopped for lunch in a little town that offered all sorts of British “fry-ups” on the menus. We had decided we were just going to wing it in regards to finding our next accommodation… turned off the road toward the water on a whim and stopped at the first place we saw by the ... read more

Aegean Dreams in Greece Catching up with our travelers as their plane descends into Athens, Greece shortly after midnight. Arriving in the middle of the night presents its own set of difficulties, such as, transportation and finding a reasonable place to stay. Thinking ahead, we had booked a room on-line before we departed to eliminate at least one of the issues. However, the transportation issue was looking like a daunting task. We had two choices, take a taxi from the airport which was going to cost more than a place to stay, or, try to navigate our way there on the unfamiliar public transportation system. Budget minded as we have to be doing this kind of long term travel we opted for the bus… Receiving directions from the night reception at the hotel, we quickly realized ... read more

I'm including a few places in this entry because I didn't really do too much there. I actually didn't even get off the ship in Mykonos, Greece, but I took some great pictures from the ship. A cruise ship is actually and excellent vantage point for landscape or panoramic shots. You're elevated enough and far away enough to get quite a bit. So I have a lot of those kinds of pictures. That's the first thing I do when we get into port is head out on deck to see what kind of pictures I can get. So anyway, Kusadasi, Turkey is a much tamer and touristy Turkish town (say that five times fast). It's a little island with lots of resorts and shops and fisherman. The only thing you have to be wary of is ... read more