Hotel Avra Paros

... close to the marina that has music coming from it. I ate a lamb dish for dinner and since the Greeks eat dinner very late in the day and will frequently make an evening of it, it wasn't until close to 11 PM that we left the taverna.

I went back to the yacht to dress in my club clothes and to go to one of the few dance clubs that remained open over the winter. Although it wasn’t packed, the club was still a lot of fun and we had a great time.

It’s a little cool outside for a party island that is famous for its nude beaches and all-night dance clubs. This is the first time that I wished we were visiting Greece during the tourist season since the town almost feels empty and the beaches deserted.

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... were white! The sky was clear blue! Vendors were yelling! The smells of slouvaki were everywhere! It felt like we were at our Summer Fair!

We walked around the port and did some browsing in the store front shops and street market, occasionally being enticed to view local Greek Nike t-shirts! Being seasoned shoppers, we avoided eye contact and only took interest in an item if we were truly ...

... butterfly sanctuary. They said the butterflies were everywhere, that you could barely walk without stepping on them. I was pretty excited about it! When we got in there it turned out the butterflies are nonturnal, so although they were everywhere, they were asleep and it was absolutely against all rules to wake them up. They have a short lifespan and were there to mate, so waking them ...

... The best nights the bar had was when there were lots of Australians, Irish, Scottish, American and English staying in the campsite. They know how to party. The biggest night of the summer was a fancy dress with 'superheroes' being the theme. I was a little worried that we might not be able to pull it off, it's not as though people come away on holidays with fancy dress costumes in their luggage. We had a big group of Australians staying at the campsite and they were very ...

... t want the night to end. I didn't want to go back to reality I wanted to stay in our world, a world we had built for just the two of us. We were so lost in the moment that neither of us noticed the sun was coming up and that revellers had all left to go home. We were so lost in each other that we hadn't even noticed the old men watching us as they sat outside drinking their morning cups of coffee. We even failed to notice the groups of fishermen gathering beside us ...

... Adams during an unbelievably good acoustic set at Harmony (Smitty immejately crushing his dreams: "I wanna hear some Bolton")
-completely misinterpreting the vibe during bungalow sip o' dt and requesting "Rise Up" and all Ibiza '07 techno while DJ Smead was pumping out savage tunes
-announcing that the peak in Montenegro was higher while all hands were celebrating booze cruise cliffjump

How MacGyver did Ios
-said to a girl who had a ...

... see. We also visited whats called "Down Under Bar" before heading to one of the most popular clubs on the island, the Scandinavian bar. All the guides that take these tours are fantastic when it comes to buying us drinks, i assume that they get a budget to spend on shots etc, because we survived the whole night on a very small ammont of money! During the days on the beach as well, there are always promo people walking around with free shot cards, to try to promote coming ...

Today we rented scooters and decided to drive around the island. It was so much fun and we found a beach on the other side of the island to relax at. The scooters were great because we were able to get around really easily and didn't have to worry about getting too lost because it was a small island. We ended up eating at this little restaurant which ended up being run by a British guy so talked to him for a bit about our travels, such a small world.

How on Earth did I get to be so lucky?

My family and I went on a cruise of the Greek Islands. We ate a lot, got sea sick once, soaked up the sun, and absorbed the classically beautiful white and blue colours on the islands. There weren't very much ship activities that my sister and I were interested in but Allyson and I did win a bingo game! Mykonos was by far our favorite island because of its beauty.