Blogs from South Aegean, Greece, Europe - page 112

June 7th From Agios Nikolaos, we boarded a ferry to Santorini's port, Ormos Athinios. The boat's constant side-to-side sway gave me a drunk feeling. Many times I tripped over the metal lips that joined the doorways of the ship halfway to falling on my face. I hadn't been on a boat this large before and my anxiety was very high. The longer we were on board, the more my fears were regurgitated. It took me at least half of the ride to calm myself, thought the ill feeling was ever present. The time was around 10pm upon our arrival. Still feeling nauseous from the ride and the excessive meal before boarding, I stumbled out of the cargo gate quickly attacked by hostel workers and cab drivers. All attempting to seduce us towards there hostel with ... read more

Woke up around 11am, best night of sleep yet on my trip. We got some food and settled our tickets for bus and ferry to Crete. Jake was staying and travelling to turkey meeting with us later in budapest. We would be picked up by bus at 4pm and the ferry would leave at 5pm. Decided to head back to the black pebble beach for a bit more snorkelling. There was a place further down the beach with a concrete platform and rock cliff along the coastline. We climbed in the water from the platform which was absolutely freezing that day for some odd reason?? The water was a bit cloudy near the platform because there had been fairly large waves the previous night and the crap from the shore had been carried into the water. ... read more

Mykonos= We arrived here very very tired, having arrived at Athens Airport at midnight, where we slept on the floor and then caught the bus to Pireaus for the slow ferry to Mykonos. We were able to sleep on the ferry. It was raining when we arrived at Vienaoulos Garden Hotel. But the weather has cleared and now we are having clear near perfect days. Mykonos is very sterile, its so perfect, lots of jewellery shops. Full of rich Italians and Greeks wearing white and smoking. We hired a quadbike and made a tour of the island, this restored our faith in travel. It was a brillant day. Went to Shirley Valentine Beach. Having lots of lovely Greek food. Trying to go for a jog most days. Rob has discovered Tzaki dip. The wines are ... read more

Again updating a little late. The computer line tends to be long at night, and we just don't get up early enough in the morning. So the other day we docked in Mykonos, Greece pretty early in the morning. We took the shuttle bus into town. The town overall is pretty small, but there are some cool things there. Caroline, Matt and I walked most of the way up the mountain for some cool views. The island is mostly bright white houses with either blue or red accents. There are tons, and I mean tons, of little Greek Orthodox churches. I am pretty sure that every family must have their own church. There are also some really old windmills there, which are not in operation anymore, but are pretty neat looking. We found an really ... read more

Hey all Well I've got a couple of exciting days to tell you all about!!! The first is when we returned to Lucerne. It was our first stop when we collected our car in Zurich and it was a very dull drizzly day. We returned two weeks later last Thursday to find they'd had a dump of snow the previous Monday! When we arrived it was a clear blue sky-ed day with snow on the peaks!! Woo hoo!! We took a trip to Pilatus "Dragon Mountain" (close to my heart) via boat around Lake Lucerne, to hop on a cog wheel railway to the top of the mountain (2000 odd metres) and return was via a chair lift - awesome scenery every step of the way! At the top we were throwing snow balls at each ... read more