Hotel Nafpaktos

... rather than being anything practical to follow. I saw several ignored stop signs and mopeds going up on the sidewalk to avoid traffic. It definitely has a feeling of leaving the ’west’. Even when boarding the ferry boat it was barely organized chaos. Transport trucks backing in from several directions, motorbikes swerving between, and soon we were heralded into the web. Like some sort of strange ...

Destination 398

[Ferry]

After leaving the city of Piraeus without any roadmap and taking the overcrowded toll freeway to the connected Island of Peloponnes I left the busy freeway to go on along the main road. A beautiful coastline road along the ugly ...

... Yes of coarse there is one leaving tomorrow."
"Is it available?"
Without checking her computer, "Yes of course it is available, just the quicker you book the better."
Shona went back to tell Dino the news. "OK lets do it." We lugged our bags back to the ticket office and said "Let's do it. Book the ferry tomorrow for Corfu."
Click, click, click "Ah, ooh, um the ferry tomorrow is full. The next one available is Thursday."
"THURSDAY ...

... I would have missed out!

Once we got to our hotel we were excited to head to the beach, only to find that it wasn't really much of a beach, more just rocks. Many of us jumped off the pier and went swimming in the sea, the water was surprisingly cold. I was standing there in the water up about to my knees ...

... the site was only saved by a mammoth fire-fighting effort. But further north, olive groves, farms and even parts of some villages have not been so lucky. The fires have cut massive black swathes through what would previously have been very scenic countryside. The fires have even burned through parts of the Vouraikos Gorge. Its quite sobering! And we've had a bit of a tragedy - in one of those kids in the back seat fighting over who's taking up the most room scenarios, Zebra comes ...

... surrounded by cray French tourists running the once athletic track in the 38 degree heat....so of course we became a little crazy and joined them! We then walked down to the Sanctuary of Athena and to the much photographed Tholos (a 4th century BC columned rotunda of Pentelic marble) where l lied on some ancient rubble beneath a Cyprus tree beside the Tholos and wondered how many people get to experience life like l am this year and experiences like this one!

... later. So, first thing in the morning - good sleep or no - we're making for Piraeus and taking a ferry to Santorini. We don't have reservations down there either, but I think we'll be able to take our chances and luck out a little easier away from all the football action. In any case, it isn't high season, nor a weekend, so something should work out. Next stop, Athens. . . .

We had our last night in Athens and had to say good bye to Tina this morning. We did however, have quite an interesting night when we ran into 2 atorneys in Athens, one from Kentucky and another from Pennsylvania. They were interesting guys, with some crazy tales, but they made great companions for the evening- especially when walking around Athens at night as three very good looking girls! Hilary and I found a ...

train from Rome to Ancona then a 21 h our ferry ride to Patras beca use the ferry didnt stop where our g uide said it would. b ummer. this keyboard is awfu l. sorry . i cant control it at all. slept in a stairwell on the ferry, because we were only allowed on the upperdeck.

... auf das Autodeck. Dort warten die Menschen bereits darauf, das Boot verlassen zu können. Autofahrer drängeln sich. Menschen schieben einander. Jeder will der erste sein. Wir betrachten das Schauspiel von hinten. Der riesige Schiffsbauch stinkt nach Autoabgasen. Wir sehen bekannte Gesichter. Wir kennen uns alle. Viele von Ihnen ...