Blogs from Kos, South Aegean, Greece, Europe - page 5

Arlene, Myrna and I were off to the island of Kos. We arrived on a large ferry 9 hours later from the large Athens port of Perias. Our beautiful hotel was about 3 km out of the port city at a lovely studio with beautiful patios and swimming pool. We arrived in the port in the wee hours of the morning only to see the young people going home after a big night of usual partying with music still playing and bar lights still on. We used the local bus to go back and forth from the hotel to the main port city. We took the island bus to travel to numerous beautiful beeches around the island and on one day we heard of a village panarea, a village celebration. We missed the bus so took ... read more

Yesterday was Friday the 13th! My day in Kos, you could write the script now, walked about & checked the tourist district & the beach, got some food... Saw Fracture at an outdoor movie theater (Greek subtitles); it was a good movie, wıth Anthony Hopkins. And, get ready Sarah, stopped for the late night sweet crepe, peanut butter & Nutello (which is a chocolate spread widely popular in Europe). Eventually went to my room for the nıght whıch turned out to be awful. Not so much the shower this time, but it was stifleing warm & mosquitos buzzing about. Needless to say, İ tossed, turned & cursed, put ınsect repellant on & Benedryl, all wıth slıght dozıng. That lasted for about 4 hrs (130-530); İ couldnt take ıt any longer, showered, left & found a ... read more

To paraphrase one of my favourite characters, “Allow myself to introduce… myself” You know how it is in the summer months when TV ratings are off, all the stars go on holiday, and the fill-in comes in to, err, fill in? Well, that’s what is happening here. Julie is on, umm, “holiday” (The cheek! Another holiday within a holiday!...), so younger-sister-and-occasional-travelling-partner Shani is here to fill in for this particular episode. Life last week took us both to Greece. And it was good. Ha ha. No, I’ll give a little more detail than that. Greece was the result of Julie and me walking into a travel agency one lazy Saturday, and asking the agent what he had. He had a week on Kos going cheap so that’s where we went. Kos is a little island in ... read more

I am going to apologise in advance for this blog, I cannot remember much of my time in Kos but wanted to share my pictures with people/friends so please excuse my blog (or lack of a blog) & I hope you enjoy what I do remember & the few pictures I have that bring back so many memories. When I was 21 I had planned with my friend Peter to take a year (or two) out to travel however a job opportunity came up that I could not ignore & I was unable to travel, sadly my friend Peter did not go travelling either but he did spend a summer season in a part of Kos called Kardamena, which we had both spoke about doing to start our travels. Whilst he was there my friend Michael ... read more