Greece
Travel Blogs from Greece
Nothing but the oldies here!!
Plans changed that morning, everyone was going off to Ios but Mel had an emergency back home and had to start making her way back to Australia. Her brother and his best friend apparently got in a fight, he fell and hit his head on a rock or something, ...
Crete, Greece
Hi All Finally going to get this up to date. So we're in Crete, Greece, why I hear you ask... not real sure, just decided that this is somewhere we wanted to visit... We survived our extremely early rise and our 12 hour ferry ride. Not half as ...
mmmmmmm moussaka
got dropped off by the bus in a deserted terminal at 4 in the morning. Luckily, us and the other disorientated tourists managed to find a late night diner still open and drink coffee until sunup. athens itself was well worth the short visit. expecting ...
Day 76 - Short Fuse
YAY! I got the top bunk last night! :-) This morning Vida and I got an early wake up call as the 2 girls from York were going on an Athens excursion. When I went to find out about our jobs, I was advised that we were not required in the Students ...
Ride 'em Donkey!
Crete, what can I say about Crete? Not much really as we hadn't book an excursion from the boat and most of it was going to be shut due to a religious festival. We didn't set an alarm to get up apart from one at 10.30am, just before out 11am ...
Naxos- Nuditsts, beaches and philosophy
Naxos, the biggest and largest island of the Cyclades contains more than 98kms of fine golden sandy beaches! Still recovering from the night before, l slept in and met Sarah on the deck and ate breakfast and a frappe overlooking the Naxos port. Sarz ...
Meet Crete
As I was perusing my (crap) map I noticed it was possible to catch a ferry from the south of the Peloponnese to Crete. Further investigation indicated the ferry left at 9pm on Wednesday night an it was 150kms away. I had one day to get there, so I ...
Acropolis / Parthenon
... him a warm towel was a pleasant site! We dined; we watched movies and relaxed after a long wedding week! The arrival into Greece from the plane was a spectacular sight. The terrain, typical of a Mediterranean country with brown dry spots and the shoreline ...
CONTIKI - CORFU
... We got Giros at a place called Mic Macs, which were awesome. Like a small kabab, but with chips in it:) I absolutely love Greece already! It reminds me of Thailand a lot. Everything is a little cheaper, a lot more relaxed, and absolutely beautiful. This ...
CONTIKI - ATHENS
DAY 19 - CORFU TO ATHENS Today I woke up feeling the worst I have felt for the whole trip, although partly self inflicted. 1hr sleep, hung over and with a even more severe cold; maybe a bad idea to drink until 5am:) We caught a short ferry ride to the ...

