Hotel Butrinti Sarande

Corfu was surprisingly warm today, around the mid 70s, which was warm enough for us to spend some time at the Aqualand water park. I've never been to a larger water park and we make is just in time before they closed for the winter. Me and my buddies played around until it began to get cool towards the late afternoon. <br><br>This morning we visited the ...

... tastic. Truly, it's been great.<br><br>When I arrived in my room I had a momentary hiccup where I just was so sad. I hadn't really missed Larry or felt home sick too much during the trip, but for some reason, on the cruise, in the room by myself, I just broke down. BUT. I told myself, "Josie, you are here and you're alone. But you're here." From that point on it was, pardon -- or don't, the pun, smoooooth sailing.<br><br>I had a FABULOUS welcome treat in my room in the form ...

... not seem to worry the police in Italy, Greece, New York or in fact any where except NZ) to drive to the stunning village of Oia, a Greek village characterized by narrow streets and white house and churches with blue domes (learned that the blue domes are Greek Orthodox Churches and the white domes are Catholic ones) &#8211; it offers breath taking views over the Gulf of Santorini. As we approached the village the taxi driver stopped in the middle of ...

We had a whole day of just hanging around Corfu town so we went for some breakfast and then picked up our laundry and popped back to the hotel to pack our bags. The weather is not so good today raining and a little cloudy so for the most part of the day we just mooched about shops and did some stuff on the internet. The batteries in the camera keep going so as soon as we can get some good ones then we will post the pictures.<br><br>As it was the friday before the ...

... back to the hotel and booked a really nice place in Sorrento with a swimming pool just hope its open the pool at this time of year and its only 7 days now till Danielle comes to meet us in Italy I am so excited to see her.<br><br>Met some English men travelling around there were about our age and they were dead nice so asked them did they want to come for a quick drink with us and we went for some wine. Then for the most food in the world both Ian ...

... facilities and I went over to see how much it was 106 euros a night for a room which isnt too bad its a really cool place somewhere I would like to stay rather than here its cruel torture seeing all that luxery next door when I have toe nails and hairs in the shower ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh<br><br>Anyways last night so had a few beers with everyone and a Greek dinner of pasta shapes with cheese grated on top ha ha with that special Greek salad again.

... minute and explain the Albanian evening promenade - information coming from various PCVs. It's the big social activity in every town outside Tirana to put on your best and walk up and down either a boardwalk or a particular street for a few hours after dark. Boys mostly stick with boys and girls with girls, even older married men and women often split up. And even though premarital sex is pretty taboo outside Tirana, 'putting on their best' for many girls means ...

... big mass. There was an interesting variety of designs in the buildings, yet all the construction materials were similar, so the place had quite an oss feel to it. The castle might have been interesting had it been open at that time of the morning, but no luck there. I didn't feel like I had missed much when I jumped on to my next bus at 10.

... the monk why the faces had been cut out of the beaten silver biblical scenes that adorned the walls but he misunderstood the question and repeated that they were made of solid silver nine hundred years ago. This seemed to be his set line that he had learned.<br><br> Although he seemed happy, if slightly nervous, to show us around, the monk had other things on his mind that day. We had noticed on our way up to the summit a cloud of smoke coming from the other side ...

We checked out of our nice little hotel in Corfu, and caught a taxi to the port. There we boarded a day ferry to take us to Sarande, Albania. This was especially exciting for me, as I had never been to Albania.<br><br>We arrived, and 'walked' to a nearby hotel. It seemed empty, but was in excellent condition, and very clean. There was a darling little old man that greeted us, and checked us in. The room cost $30.00 a nite. (SCORE~!) The ...