Blogs from Zakynthos, Ionian Islands, Greece, Europe

Better weather today, so off on a 6hr cruise around the island! I followed the find a field, park in field approach and everyone seemed to be parking near the port in between and around all these big boats... so I followed suit lol. (I came back to a very dusty car that people drew all over, but hey, that's fine.) Since I'm staying in the middle of nowhere I wasn't eligible for pickup from MyTours, which is fine bc it means I got there before most of the other passengers. Score. I got a seat on the shady side of the boat, which is perfect bc it's the side that's closest to the island anyway during the tour. The music onboard made me laugh - it was an old school English mix, like Can’t Touch ... read more

Day 1 + Day 2 Yesterday was straight up exhausting. 5hr layover in Montreal only to then leave 40min late, after sitting on the tarmac full and ready to go for +30 min (they were doing a systems upgrade? Really?) Not much of an effective upgrade, about 20 tvs didn’t work at all, mine included LOL. Really glad I had downloaded The Witcher and a few other short funny things - a +9hr flight with no entertainment would have been disastrous lol. As usual I didn't really manage to sleep... idk why I'm fine to sleep on trains and busses, but the planes never cooperate. Athens airport is pretty lowkey, if you like. I grabbed some bagel sandwich thing for lunch (was good!) and went to pick up my rental car. I'm using Avance this whole ... read more

2 EKİM 2022 CUMARTESİ Levante Ferries tam zamanında kalkarak bir saat yolculuktan sonra adaya vardı.. Gemi oldukça lüks rahat rahat koltuklara serildik… Adaya varınca ,kısa bir yolculuktan sonra limana yakın Mirabel otelimizi bulduk .. Pek te güler yüzlü olmayan otel çalışanı odamızı gösterdi .. Kısmetimize denize bakan ve şahane bir balkonu olan oda düştü.. Hemen yerleştik ve yakında yer alan Kalamaki plajına yöneldik… Burası rüzgar alan bir yer olmasına rağmen plajın ayakçısı bize daha korunaklı bir yer sundu .. Buranın denizi de git git bitmez türünde ama olsun keyfimiz yerinde .. Plajın arkasında devasa bir tesis var tuvalete gitmek için bir km yürümen gerek fakat etrafta manzaralar güzel .. İnsanlar havalı ve günün keyfine varmaya çalışıyorlar … Bu plaj GPS te yanlış bi... read more

A New Beginning Not only a new trip, but a new blog location, unfortunately. Same melissagquest. This time traveling with my intrepid hubby. Heading over to visit my friends who live on Zakinthos… when they're not in Canada. No promises about frequency, but will try to get you guys up to date and share some photos. Enjoy!... read more

Zakynthos—aka We Won Today was our first stop in Greece, on the tiny island of Zakynthos or Zante. The ship did not dock until noon so we had a leisurely morning. I woke up early (5:40 a.m.) and could not sleep so decided to try and get the blog and pictures uploaded. It was fairly successful. It took 2 hours to upload 28 pictures to Facebook. Like I have said before, Wi-Fi on this ship is horrid. Mark got up around 8 and went to get breakfast. He saw Skate in the restaurant and had a nice conversation with her. I updated and uploaded the blogs and re-uploaded pictures that failed to upload the first time. Sympathize with me here, people, I’m having REAL first-world problems! During the whole cruise planning process, Julie and I had ... read more