Gaby10

So our adventure began with a very very very long day of traveling. We picked up the car in Toulon and decided to get to the Loire Valley to do our castle tours we should drive as far as we could the first day. So we drove for about 8.5 hours with a couple of stops until we got to Tours, France. Rob was pretty happy to be driving on roads at about 130-150kmh. Our little car can go pretty fast... I was happy that it was turquoise like my car back home (a colour Rob for some reason hates...lol). Anyway so we stayed the night in Tours at a cheap hotel (36Euros a night...woohoo) it was a pretty random hotel but it did the trick, then it was up early and off to fit in ... read more

We had a crazy train ride from Milan to Nice. What’s new really…all of our travel days have so far been a little crazy. We weren’t given seat numbers for the train which we didn’t realise until about 2 hours into our trip when people slowly started to fill up our cabin and replace other people who were basically squatting in the seats until they were forced to move. So shortly after we realised our seats were taken and we were out in the train hallway for the rest of the trip. Luckily we could keep our suitcases in the cabin. We spent the next couple hours up and down as people were walking up and down the hallway past us. We arrived at our stop and transferred trains for another 30 minute train ride until ... read more

Santorini continued… On Tuesday we drove down to Kamari beach which had amazing blue water. We decided to rent chairs and an umbrella for the day for a more comfortable beach experience. It was nice and we spent the day swimming, reading and relaxing. After we were done at the beach we stopped at a winery (one of many on Santorini) called Santo Winery. They have an amazing view of the caldera and so we (mostly me) sampled the wine and ate some cheese and “crackers” aka stale bread to cleanse the palate. We bought some wine and then headed back to our resort pool and relaxed for awhile, enjoying our beautiful views and decided to stay in Akrotiri for the night, so we headed back to Aeoles for a fabulous dinner (I had another amazing ... read more

After a night in Athens... we got picked up in the morning by our tour bus. Surprisingly the tour bus was on time and extremely organized (I was a little bit skeptical). Despite the long hours in the bus the two day tour was amazing, a kind of tour that really hits you later on.... I really saw that??? Wow! Anyway, we started off our tour driving through Greece to get to Delphi. If you know anything about Greek Mythology, or watch enough movies you know that Delphi is pretty important to Greek history. Me an admitted history nerd and Rob who looooves movies were both really excited to take this trip. Of course at one point I had told Rob all the details of where the tour would be taking us but of course he ... read more

Barcelona. We'll things were off to a rocky start with an awful flight at night from Paris to Barcelona, with stupid Ryan Air. Yes it was a cheap flight but not only did we have to fly out of an airport an hour outside of Paris only accessible by shuttle bus, but the flight also landed not really in Barcelona but a little town called Reus. Yes we knew this facts in advance but it was made worse by the all together annoying flight attendants that literally made everyone stow away their sweaters etc in the overhead. They checked about 1 million times before the flight could take off and they kept handing us things to hold onto until the end of the flight, when we landed they played a theme song. So we landed in ... read more