Hotel Joni 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 ...

... chocolate-chocolate covered pretzels from my parents. Thanks mom and dad! (See? Again, I wanted to say mum and dad. I think I'm becoming an ex-pat. Oh, brother.)<br><br>The weather for the first two days was frigid. Down-right blustery. It's all anybody on the ship could talk about. Apparently we all were hoodwinked by the weathermen on that one. But finally today, the sun came out to visit and it was a pretty day. And tomorrow's high is expected to be 76 degrees in Athens ...

... seeing and pick up the clean clothes on the way home &#8211; the laundry he took us to was closed so it looked like we would smell until the end of the cruise. He dropped us at the Acropolis - it was very hot, crowded and commercialised. However a nostalgic moment happened for Chris as he remembered sitting on the steps of the Pantheon when he was five years old, hence was disappointed that it was all now roped off and so much of it was covered in ...

... in albanian and she got up and went with him. Nuts! Also this man was asleep on a chair near us and he kept hacking up chest stuff and spitting it on the floor. We could have upgraded to a cabin but it would have cost an extra 50 euros so we had to rough it out. And rough is exactly how the see got worse and worse till in the end at like 7am the man came around and gave everyone sick bags we had one between me Katy and Ian and was wondering who was going to use it first ...

Packed our stuff up so happy to leave this hole and went to pay and asked idiot Brian could we have a lift into Corfu town he said that there was no way that he could go until after 12 it was 9am but happily the owner of the hostel was popping in so he gave us a lift there. Oh thank god we got away from there it was making me miserable and ill, Ian found us a little hotel right on the front of Corfu town and its amazing really clean and the first thing ...

... Brian is not talking to me at all not that I am ***** Ian keep singing the Artic Monkeys song Brian top marks for not trying....so thats making me laugh. He said he works 20 hours a day but all I ever see him doing is sitting around watching the TV. The place could be so lovely if someone just was ***** to give it a brush around and a good bleaching because its in the most amazing spot. Next door is a five star hotel with a swimming pool all ...

... mosquitos even though I have spray on to deter them everything is ok. Go met off the ferry by some american guy who is running the hostel that we are staying at he was really miserable and obviously did not want a conversation with us as we where talking to him asking him questions and stuff he put the radio on really loud how rude this was my first impression of Brian and it did not get any better. <br><br>Arrived ...

Next stop, same day was Sarande, Albania. It was only to be a half day call. Just as well. We took no shore excursions but did go for a stroll about the town. From our anchorage we could see the steep hills filled with partly built apartments. No work had been ...

... pop into a grocery for our usual picnic lunch, then get back to the boat. The first store we go into, I ask if they take Euros. The clerk rattles of something in Albanian, then asks if I speak Italian (in italian). Apparently, those are the two languages they speak in Albania. He asks around a bit, but no one in the store speaks English, so we head out to try our luck elsewhere. We find another grocery (they seem to be on every corner around here ...

... 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 ...