Blogs from South Aegean, Greece, Europe - page 114

We visited Mykonos, Greece today after a day and a half of sailing. ALL buildings are white there (seriously ALL of them), so it can make it easy to get turned around. To get the the island, they piled us in little motor boats to take us there. After we arrived, we had lunch in a little cafe that sat out on the sidewalk. Checked out some shops, then sat on a brick ledge and dangled our feet in the Med Sea. Good times. We met a couple of umm 'senior' ladies that enjoy finding Tracee and I to just sit and chat. They make things pretty interesting. Oh, and did I mention that they are INSANE? heh heh. :) Well, not much more on Mykonos but Turkey tomorrow! WOOT WOOT! p.s. Also met a, ... read more

Oh my god, it was raining a bit yesterday!! No rain all winter and then it arrives with me!! They are preparing to batten down the hatches this weekend as their is a storm due!! Still warm enough to go out in shorts and vest top though!! Well the detox lasted a total of about 2 days, (better than nothing!!). Holiday mode officially ends on Wednesday (that'll be my 3 weeks in) and then I will have to seriously nuckle down!! Have started the Joy Exton dog walking school - take 2 dogs out in the morning and in the early evening and the person was so impressed with me that I got a pay rise after about 3 days and she knows of more people that want my help!! Even though it was cloudy yesterday, ... read more

May 16, 2007 Mykonos… the world famous, cosmopolitan Greek Island that is also the location of where the hit movie from the 80’s, “Shirley Valentine” was filmed. The ship arrived at around 7:30am and after a nice leisurely breakfast we caught a shuttle and went into the nice little town of Hora. No tours were going to bog us down today, as we left the day open. For a short while we just walked along the harbour, where we saw many cafés and restaurants. As we walked around a corner near where the smaller boats were docked, we saw 3 very plump contented pelicans resting on a cement wall. A few tourists were gathered by them to take photographs. We did the same. I could not get over their size! After a little more walking ... read more

Our first ferry trip in Greece!! We were so excited to take the Greek version of Bart to the port, but of course they were on strike - just our luck so we had to take a taxi... and traffic was ridiculous because of the strike so it took forever to get there. Lambrose our driver was super nice, he helped us map out our island hopping excursions. At the port we had our first Gyro's!! and free beer!!! It was so friggin hot! 31 degrees which is over 90!!! Hot hot hot. The ferry was super nice - we got suckered into upgrading to the "airplane seats" that reclined in the ac section of the boat where they showed movies in english!! We figured out later that no one checks your tickets and you ... read more

We set sail, well ferry, across from Turkey to Greece to Samos. So close to Turkey that you can almost swim across at some points and the Greeks have guns lining the shores to keep the Turks away. Those Greeks still love the Turks!! On the ferry we ran into people we had met in Instabul who were travelling from Oz for a year, who became our travelling companions for our time in the Greek Islands. After arriving in Samos we were greeted by an Aussie fella who helped us out with a place to stay, close to the beach. Nice !!(which is to be said like Borat!) It was now time to spend more time relaxing on the beach and enjoying the great weather. We, well Dave, tried his hand at driving a European ... read more