Eretria Beach Palmariva Hotel

HERE IS THE END OF MY SUMMER DESTINATIONS 2009 Blog.

I can admit, I went to more places than I expected. It was fun each time, and I really need to stay a bit at home now before my next trip. Again the coming trip comes sooner than I expected it to be.

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... The deceased is always depicted as the one seated, and she is attended by the living mourner, perhaps a mother or sister, she left behind. The lavish processions were eventually outlawed, and more austere stelae were the only monuments permitted to be erected in memory of the loved ones. Indy called the austerity stelae "cigarette butt" monuments. As usual, we were greeted at this historical site by ...

... the pirate ship was one of them. Our pirate ship took us to the Island that is the volcano. It was nice because we got a view of the whole Island of Santorini as we left it. The water was a little rocky so we got a little splashed along the way. The volcano island consisted of all rocks. We toured around the volcano with our guide for about an hour. We saw some craters and even saw sulfur coming out of one of the holes in ...

... of her grandfather to the Divine. He's always on her mind. I hadn't even finished the leftovers from the women's dinner when three of the men - Fred, Class Clown, and Mama D - came over to make French fries and hamburgers ground specially for them by the local butcher and then topped with cheese, onions, green peppers, and bacon on honey buns made fresh from the bakery. I had fun doing my part (staffing the foot pedal on the trash can) and ...

I got lost on the walk between my apartment and the classroom building this morning. It's an obligatory second-day-in-a-new-place thing. I eventually got there, though, and spent most of the day talking one by one with each of the women who run the program. They exclaimed at the exquisite beauty of the pictures of Crater Lake and Southern Oregon University in the little flip ...

... the whole way around, it was the first time I got to see the swimming pools. Then we went to Hooter's for our friend Alex's birthday. The waitresses made him stand up on a chair and dance and sing. It was a lot of fun! The next day, Roxy and I took on the role of tourists. We went up to the Acropolis, had lunch on the mountain right at the top of the Ancient Agora, and went through the Ancient Agora and the Roman Agora. And then just walked around ...

... pom poms on the end of the clogs and actually they walk like a Russian guards. All very bizarre and entertaining, maybe it was a scary ploy against there formal enemies!! Who knows!! But good fun and drink time and yes we found a starbucks...another results and a hot chocolate later I could easily of slept...doh flight wasn't for another 9 hours. So how did we fill the time in??? Shopping and eating of course... I managed to bag ...

... and finally we arrive to the National Gardens, wich are very big and savage, like a kind of jungle in the heart of the city. Later we go to our favourite part of Athens: Plaka! I think I could be walking along these narrow streets for all my life and I'd never be bored. It's time to buy some presents for family and friends: baklava and melomakaronia (greek sweet pastries), the very well-known eyes of luck and bottles of ...

Breakfast in Istanbul and lunch in Athens. Really that means breakfast in the airport whiling away the two hours for security. But we did have a late lunch at a taverna in Plaka, the old town sited just below the Acropolis, and enjoyed watching large Greek families eat and drink away a Sunday afternoon. An efficient post-Olympic mass transit system delivered us from the airport to the doorstep of our hotel. The system is under utilized by locals and ...

... in general...was bit of a shock. couple of cute little towns here in Santorini but there is only so long you can walk around them looking in all the beautiful shops with all the amazing stuff I cant really afford to buy right now....well without going hungry and having nowhere to sleep anyway.....so to the beach it was. Am going to go to Red Beach tomorrow, meant to be really stunning. Have to say none of the beaches Ive been to so far have come close to being ...