Blogs from Attica, Greece, Europe - page 116

hello all! i am so glad to finally have and hour to sit and write to you all. our contiki finished this morning. we have done so much! i totally loved switzerland and corfu. have done lots of site seeing and shopping. we hired a car in corfu and drove to the other side of the island to the beach!it was so calme and clear. we bought airbeds to float around in the waves ( but there wasnt many, it was good) i it has been a long two weeks of contiki and the late nights(3-4am sleep) and early mornings(any where from 6.45 breakie) still havent caught up with me. we are off to mykonos tomorrow on the three hour ferry then we will stay for 4-5 days there. i have meet some great people on ... read more

So we did it.....we won the quad....it was not the most amazing feeling in the boat...but the crowd told us after that the commentator absolutely sung our praises on the way down the course.....which he failed to do for any other crew. Thats cool. IT was not a really immediately celebrated experience as we had to go to the start straight away to compete in the double final that we had qualified for easily earlier in the day. On the way up......things started to go pear shaped. The attack I had in Denmark came again....this time way worse.....I am handing over the explanation of the event to my partner in the double.....Dr Verburg...... Well, she went from coughing to exasperatingly trying to get some air in before the next coughing session and back to coughing again. ... read more

The last day of the land portion of this tour. I slept pretty well after our busy busy day. We actually got to sleep in a bit today. Breakfast was in a large room in the hotel. This was one of the best of the trip with scrambled eggs, bacon, rolls and orange juice. At a little after nine we boarded Niko's bus for a short drive to pick up Vee. She gave us a bit of a city tour as we headed for our tour of the Acropolis. We had to park at the base of the mini-mountain but the climb wasn't difficult at all. Vee sat us down in the shade just below the entance to the ruins while she explained the history and significance of the site. Then we joined the huge crowds ... read more

This was about to be a very, very busy day. We were up rather early in order to leave on the bus at 8:00. Our breakfast wasn't as filling as our previous few in Greece. This morning it was back to cold cereal, a couple croissants and watery orange juice. Our first order of business was to drive back up the isolated Tolo road into the larger city of Nafplion. Even though Tolo is the seaside resort where most of the people in our group were happy to stay, Nafplion looked more to my liking. It was also built adjacent to the sea. Nafplion didn't have the beautiful shoreline or bayside restaurants and bars like Tolo, but instead was somewhat sterile-looking in the downtown port area. But in town there was a bustling shopping district and ... read more

It's cold and windy here in Athens, not what I expected. The flight into Athens was a comfortable BA flight complete with movie that I didn't watch and hot chicken lunch that I did eat. And this was the same price as the Easy Jet flight - no comparison. I am so jet lagged, I am not sleeping when I am supposed to and tired during the day. I am finding this trip more difficult to adjust to. Perhaps because I wasn't well rested before I left. Since it was overcast, I went to the Natrional Archeological Museum. Lots of old things. The Minoan treasures are great. And I saw the death mask of Agamemnon. Somebody check my spelling. There were so many statues from each period of ancient Greece, Archaic, Classical and Helenistic. Truly awesome ... read more