Blogs from South Aegean, Greece, Europe - page 81

After a 5 hour ferry ride, we arrived on the island of Mykonos in Greece. What are you doing here?" - that was the first question 50% of the people we met asked. Mykonos is a couple hundred miles South of Athens in the Meditteranean and is about 15x10 miles long. We arrived midday on Saturday and quickly realized that the residents are the nicest people ever. It is definitly the down-season as with any beach town, but it was almost a vacation within a vacation. We got a ride for free to our hostel, which overlooked the beach and had the nicest owner of all time. She did our laundry for us as we explored. We did have some issues with hot water at the hostel, but we got it taken care of after the ... read more

Wednesday, 14th January, 2009. We went to the reception at about eight o'clock, did some surfing and had some drinks. It was pretty windy, so we didn't venture out. We bought some crisps the other day and ate them in the room. Thursday, 15th January, 2009. A bright start to the day. Still a little windy. I keep forgetting to mention that next door to the Hotel is some form of Military building, and every morning we have heard reveille at eight o'clock. Pat went down to breakfast and I joined her shortly after. We were heading for Kardemena today, and set off at ten o'clock. The drive was straightforward, there is one main road that runs down the spine of the Island and everything goes left or right, until you reach the bottom. The barman ... read more

Monday, 12th January, 2009. We went to the reception area at eight thirty and ordered some drinks and coffee. We connected to the internet and updated the blog. After this we went for a short stroll in the vicinity. We bought some pastries and went back the hotel. The town was quiet. We ate the pastries when we got back and then retired for the evening. Tuesday, 13th January, 2009. A bright start to the day, a little cloudy and windy. Pat went down for breakfast and for a change I joined her after a little while, I had bacon and eggs, Pat just had some rolls. We decided to walk along the front and walked up to the Marina, which is about tqo kilometers to make a guess. We went into the Marina and had ... read more

This past week has been power packed with action and drama on the high seas! First, I stubbed my toe and it hurts ALOT! So, a storm blew in last week and we were stuck in Egios for three days, that is in the Ionian Sea. With conditions not expected to improve, we jumped ship and took a bus to Athens to a larger boat, and it is so luxurious! A 50 ft sailing catamaran with 2 fridges, a computer with internet and big cabins are among the most BASIC necessities. Best of all, we have finally seen some dolphins, bottlenose. We are now in the Aegean Sea and it is been nice, but Tuesday was very rough and I was out of commission so to speak for most of the day. Finally, Wednesday: the boat ... read more

The beginning of our trip was a bit of a mission covering most modes of transport. We were up at 4 am and got a taxi out to heathrow for our flight to greece. Four hours later we then caught a train for an hour out to the old port on the opposite side of athens. We struggled to find what ferry we needed to catch and after asking at information they got some streert bum to direct us over to a ferry company. We then faced a 4 hour boat trip out to Mykonos followed by another car ride to our camping ground. Mykonos is the biggest party island so at 11pm after we had settled in we headed straight over to 'super paradise beach' for a ministry of sound dance party. Our camping ground ... read more