Blogs from Corfu, Ionian Islands, Greece, Europe - page 18

Hi All, Its a hard life lazing on a Greek Island for a week! Corfu is an island in the Ionian Sea which has the most amazing blue/torquoise and cystal clear waters. Cathy, Brian (Vic's parents), Vic and I rented out a villa on the peaceful North East coast of the island with panoramic views over the water and over to Albania which is just 1.5 miles across the water! The first few days mainly comprised of lazing by the pool, swimming at our local private pebble beach and sampling some delicous local food and wine at our local taverna. Day four included a day trip to Albania and what an experience! This country was under Communist rule for 50 years until 1990 and is still in a period of transition. Here we were greeted by ... read more

Hey everyone! well we are finally here in sunny beatiful corfu! IT IS AMAZING HERE! we have been having the best time. Well as for an update we were in florence for two days and wow was it beatiful there! one of the nights we go to a night club (not as good as the ones in LA, but ehh ok). this past saturday we had ot leave at the butt crack of dawn so we could go to the Vatican City. We were orginally suppose to be there on a sunday, however, NOTHING IS OPEN ON SUNDAY IN ROME! so we left super early and got to rome at 1130am. the vatican closes at 12. our tour manager told us to whatever possible to get in. so we did just that, we hopped the que. ... read more

SO SORRY EVERYONE!! i know it's been FAR too long since i've written, but upon getting to the pink palace it seems as if life has been a blur and the chance to get to the internet is near non existant. there's a CONSTANT line of guests out the door waiting for a computer, but it seems i've found the magic witching out- dinner time! so, here it goes... we pulled into corfu and i went straight away on the bus to the pink palace (i'm conveniantly leaving out the part where UD was over protective w/ magda -my boss- but it's ok, he's allowed his moments!!)... so the bus ride is insane, there are no lane lines and the roads are crazy steep with all these wicked curves, so we nearly died multiple times. i ... read more

i made it to greece safe and sound....sleeping on a ferry that reminded me of the titanic i got a little sick but i just took some pills and went to bed... the hotel we are staying at is a piece but whatever we just have a few drinks and it is paradise... we went out last night expecting a club that everyone was talking about...but it was closed so a bar that was suppose to open at 12 opened for us...which was nice, but the drinks were seven euro... today we all came into town and i ate a gyro... it was so much better than than the wonderful food of the greek festival and oakland gyros...wait maybe not at 3am... tonight we are having a toga party, the rules are that you can't wear ... read more

HEY ALL Today is our last day in greece, and it sucks to go. I would love to go see a few more places here, but theres not enough time to do it all!! Our bus picks us up at six tonight, then we catch a local ferry to the mainland, and then catch the long ferry ride back to ancona, where brit and i leave kaley and her cousins to catch a train to Rome. we're both sooo excited to go to Rome, we heard that there are 2 Saints dead bodies in the vatican city that miraculously never decomposed and they are both enclosed in glass coffins for people to see. crazy, hey?? Today was really good, actually it was okay because i was really hung over. hah!! last night was the infamous toga ... read more