Hotel Rodini Patras

... 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 ...

... was taking me through lovely greek villages and wonderful senery.<br><br>Arrived at Patras, the third ferry brings me overnightly to Brindisi, Italy, to arrive there at next morning. As usual: A night in my sleeping bag somwhere at deck on the floor to sleep.<br>

... Yes of coarse there is one leaving tomorrow."<br>"Is it available?"<br>Without checking her computer, "Yes of course it is available, just the quicker you book the better."<br>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."<br>Click, click, click "Ah, ooh, um the ferry tomorrow is full. The next one available is Thursday."<br>"THURSDAY ...

... Out of all my travels, only the Germans, Bosnians, Croatians and Serbians have shown hospitality to me. I await to see what my ancestory on my mother's side has to say. <br>Oh, and what's up with this new fashion in italy. They wear scarves. It's ****en 35-40 C outside...it's sweating buckets and you are wearing a scarf? Come on, fashion police, say something about that.<br><br>By the way, if you get the chance, don't stay at Pension Nico, just because Nico is a *******.

... the place or buildings that just don't have roofs. It is the same here, and I learned that this is because people by property for really cheap and then put a foundation on it; and if they do this they can prove that they are "building" and get huge tax breaks. The funny part is that they never finish the buildings. The whole purpose is to save on taxes. Then the buildings without roofs are because the family life is very popular here. They ...

... annoyed especially when someone got ash on her pants. I thought it would bug me more but it really really annoyed her the most. We managed to survive and we had a cheeseburger, chicken burger and fries for dinner. We arrived 4 hours later in Paros and we arrived at the lovely Dilion Hotel and it was so lovely and welcoming. We have a balcony overlooking a beautiful garden and it smells so good. It was so much better than we thought and we were so glad especially after last night.<br><br>

... really disturbing how men will just come up to people sitting in outside cafes selling porn dvds.  The whole time I was in Patra, I wondered what Paul would think of the place now.  Thankfully once we got to the islands we were free from that.    We broke away from the crowds and spent some time catching up on the internet downloading our pictures to clear up our memory cards and waiting for our clothes to be ready.  In the evening we boarded a train to Athens.    

... to Italy... We were bummed but knew God had something for us here. So we walked around with our packs on, looking fully American and screaming at people "rob me!", and found a youth hostel where we are shacking up for the night. We threw our bags down and wandered along the beautiful waterfront (taking in a gorgeous sunset with some cheap Greek red wine, bread, and fruit) while I envied a lot of the sailboats lining the basin. Whew, it ...

... I felt something on my leg. I looked down and started screaming...there was a huge octopus wrapping around my leg!!! I ran out of the water and then everyone came over and we all just looked at it for a while. It seemed to be looking at us too as it stayed for a while in the shallow area. I heard they are curious. <br>

... was clap his hands off the ground and push himself with force briefly into the air. Last night, I was at a University of Patra international student party and met Ja-iram from Nepal. This mocha-skinned, buzzed-haired, bespectacled man told me about Hinduism. He said his religion's most-ancient stories are the "Betts," which are at least 10,000 years old. He said everything that was, is, and will be is supposedly written in those books. And he said it's written ...