Blogs from South Aegean, Greece, Europe - page 122

Hey All! It's 11am and i'm just waiting to check out of our Mykonos hotel and board a 7 hour ferry back to Athens. Not a whole lot has happened in the last couple days. We've been relaxing by the pool/beach for the most part. It's been a really nice break from the bus but i'm itching to do more sight seeing as well. My only exciting news is that I did complete my Corfu dare. Two days ago after a full day of drinking to work myself up to it I sat in the dining room ready to make a fool out of myself. I picked the table right next to us and sat down with three strangers. They all gave me funny looks and I started chatting to them and eating off there plates. ... read more

Hello everyone! the last time i wrote i was in the lobby cause they wouldn't let us upstairs because of our bed bug bites. Well that night we had to wait in the lobby for hours and they took away ALL our luggage and the clothes off our backs to be fumagated. We didn't get our clothes back till today. We spent the first day in togas until most broke down and went to the gift shop to by a sarong and a pair of flip flops. Luckily we didn't have any sight seeing that we were really wanting to do. We have been hanging out on the beach and drinking by the pool. I did manage to get fairly sun burned the other day and now i'm wishing i had my sheet instead of my ... read more

Arrived on Santorini around 4pm on Tuesday (2/8) It took about two and a half hours on the Blue Star ferry from Naxos to the island of Thira, commonly known as Santorini which is at the southern end of the Cyclades. It is a very popular island and quite dramatic island with steep rocky cliffs and villages perched on the top and dense clusters of colourful buildings. Along the way we past Paros, Iraklia (a small island on which Vangelis and Michele were married), and Ios. From the port at Athenios, we took a coach up the steep, narrow, and winding road to Fira where we changed to another which took us to our destination at Oia (“ear”). Again the transport was modern, comfortable, clean, and efficiently organised. It took us some little time to locate ... read more

For our second day on Mykonos Jane and I went our separate ways in pursuit of the things that we know and love - Jane heading to Paradise Beach for some more sun roasting and me to the nearby island of Delos hunting more ancient ruins. Of course having said that I now feel compelled to justify just why I would opt for broken marble columns and ruined temples over sun loungers and golden sands. Lonely Planet reckons that Delos is one of the best archeological sites in Greece and having now been there they know what they are talking about. Apart from going to the beach there really isn't a lot else to do on Mykonos, so if you are going there you should definitely spend a morning on Delos checking it all out. And ... read more

Well Ios is pretty sweet we got off the boat with no where to stay and sure as shit some girl with a sign hooked us up with an apartment for 20 euro a night. Really nice place, great view of the island and the port, i got lucky to my bed faced the window so when i woke up the first thing i saw was the ocean haha sean. So we sort of got screwed unless we wanted to stay there for the week whitch we didnt, cuz our flight only left every week from crete and the only ferry was leaving from ios after our second night. Then we had a stop over in santorini and that kind of blowed cuz we had no way to get to town so we had to stay ... read more