Blogs from Meteora, Thessaly, Greece, Europe - page 7

Hello everyone! Firstly, thank you for all your comments, it is so nice to hear from you guys. I hope everyone is having a great summer so far. Greece is amazingly beautiful and so far most of the people here seem very cool and like it will be a great summer. After my messy travel day to athens and then monday's adventure on the Greek bus to tragana I settled into our house that has 7 girls and one bathroom. It's a little tight but we're making it work. Three of us are living in the kitchen and there is a rumor that an 8th girl will be living with us in a few weeks, which will make it 4 in the kitchen. But it's very nice and modern which I was not expecting.... I'm living ... read more

Today I slept in late. I think I am on European time now. We walked through the small town of Katakolon, Greece. It had GREAT shops. I loved the swords. I didn't get one though. :( I played ping pong with my dad and I beat him! YES! BINGO was fun, we didn't win, but we will try again. I did win a beach bag and water bottle. They called me up and then danced with me! UGH! We went to "Who Wants to be a Bizallionare" game show and to the comedy show. Tomorrow we head to Corfu, Greece. We will go out and walk through the city. Tomorrow night we will go to the the Magic Show. My dad talked to the guy and asked him to make me disappear. Seriously?!?! The weather has ... read more

Greece: Another emotional rollercoaster ride for us. We experienced many gloriously uplifting moments and more than our fair share of stoic teeth-grinding (Gareth) and throw-your-pack-down-and-chuck-a-proper-wobbly (not Gareth) frustrations. Coming as we did from Turkey, Athens was a bit of a dive. Okay, they've got the Acropolis, but if that Parthenon wasn't perched on that particular hill it certainly wouldn't be so cool. Ephesus (Turkey) kicked the butt of the Acropolis, it's just not up on a big shiny pedestal - still, it was the highlight of our Athens experience. Otherwise the city was overpriced, awfully littered and graffitied, crawling with cats and consequently reeking of Eau de Pussy Wee. Our hostel was far too heavy on stupid rules (no food, no hand washing, no chairs) and light on hooks in the grotty showers. But then ... read more

Monday we were in Rhodes, Tuesday Santorini and Today we're in Katakolon. The days are flying by and all running together in my mind. While in Rhodes we went on a tour called Liesurely Lindos, which consisted of a bus ride to a small village on the other side of the island called Lindos and a brief tour of a "Traditional ceramic factory". The only thing liesurely about this tour was the bus ride. Both stops were too rushed to enjoy and the mono toned tour directors put us to sleep as she droned on and on in her broken english with heavy greek accent. The panoramic views were breath taking and the food is unreal. I should meantion that we did some shopping too but from now on you should take that as a given. ... read more

Spent the day in Greece today. Caught a ferry from Kusadasi to a Greek Island called Samos. Took about an hour and a half and we were in Greece. Greece border security is great. One guy smoking a cigarette while stamping your passport. Not much to do in Samos. Went to the museum, visited the old part of the city and had a great souvlaki. Good to say we have been in Greece though. Best bit of the day was the starbucks coffee before we got on the ferry. 1st coffee in a while. ... read more