Hotel John's Place Athens

... we could eat and were ready to finish the ride.

Working our way towards Athens is a bit intimidating in itself. London and Paris were cities we simply trained into and toured around. We are going to have to take our bikes into Athens as we’ll be sailing out from there and we need to find a place to stay for a few days to see the sites and fix our bikes (according to Brian ;) ). I thought I would try Couch Surfing to give us a ...

Hey Everyone!
Sorry we haven't been updating much, but its so hard to drag ourselves to an internet cafe when there is so much to do in the places we have visited so far.
Santorini truely was amazing, from the food to the beach to exploring the island on ATV's. We had such an unbelievable time. I think we all agree the Greek honey is reason enough to make the trip to Santorini. We have been eating so well, we have definitely been embracing ...

... a Roman Catholic
Church, then a Mosque, then a gunpowder storage place. The worst damage
came when (surprise!) the Parthenon was bombed during one war or
another, which lit the stored gunpowder, which destroyed much of it. So
sad that people can do such amazing things, yet cause such irreparable
and incomprehensible damage.
Today we went to see the Acropolis and the Parthenon. They are absolutely amazing, located at the highest ...

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... with butterflies in my stomach. I was so nervous and excited, I am sure I could have floated all the way to Greece. Once on the plane I was so anxious. The woman beside me was so sweet. She talked to me while we took off which was great, cause I was soooo scared. I am just a baby. lol. The flight from Vancouver to Toronto was great. Clear skies, no turbulence. It was GREAT. Each seat had a personal TV with several movies to choose from, music stations, tv shows. They ...

Today we took a day trip to Sounion to see the temple of Poseidon there. The bus trip was about 2 1/2 hours of Greek coastline, which was really very pretty. I continued to be confused about why they had no flags, or no lifeguard towers or rescue equipment, but I realised when I tried to put into practice that Handy Dandy twenty minutes I spent paying attention in P.E. about surf that they didn't really have rips and things. Or waves, really. A lot of the beach scenery is really ...

... think it's cute when their kid screams and kicks the seat in front of them. The flight was only 2 hours, but they fed us! It's probably the healthiest meal I've had in a week. When we got to Athens, the public transport desk told us how to get to the hostel, and said it was a short walk from where the bus drops us off. When we got off the bus, (it was probably 12:45 am) as we were looking at the map and trying to find road signs that weren't in ...

... and I tend to become sleepy when in there, because of the artificial lights and the gentle rocking motion of the ship. Patron (Grete's husband, Rodrigo) at table near bookshelves Electrical outlets had to be installed and the computer cabling adjusted for LRC purposes. The beautiful mahogany reference desk that had been ordered by Louise, the LRC Consultant for ...

... from random bits of slate - and there is no hand rail and they got steeper and steeper and I looked back and saw how small everything became and that did it for me so I stopped and sat on a bunch of rocks to admire the view. We were there for a couple hours and then we all (Odwin and I along with about 200 other tourist) loaded ourselves into the boat to get to Balos Lagoon. It was pretty there and the water is so amazingly ...

... and islands of Greece. The water around the coast line was a rich blue fading to turquoise and green. The islands had steep hills that seemed almost barren. Only scattered low lying shrubs gave color to the tan rocky hillsides. We seemed to weave in and out and I even caught a glimpse of a snow capped peak out of a window on the other side of the plane. Soon we were circling in to land. I was straining my neck to see the city of Athens out ...