Livadi Nafsikas Dassia

... engine room. There is a very dingy area below deck where the one meal of passage is served…luckily we still had a package of biscuits. Water ran out after a couple of hours….

ETA (estifmated time of arrival):
The ferry is scheduled to take 17hours. We ended up being on board for 23 hours - from boarding to departure. Three of these hours being spent squeezed between hundreds of sweating people trying to push through the exit ...

... of the Paleo Frourio, an old Venetian fort. That was pretty cool. Then, late this afternoon we went through the Archaeological Museum. We didn't spend much time here since it was close to closing time and we were all tired from the water park.

That evening though we ate at our first authentic Greek taverna, we found one playing Greek music ...

... eating red onions. I know. I don't know what is happening. I can't figure it out.

Suffice it to say, I'm having a grand time. I've met some really nice folks around my age from the dinners. And there are all sorts of older couples that have taken a liking to me. And I see them all around the ship and they wave at me and ask how I'm enjoying the day just like best friends. They include the French couple I met when we were trying to find the right shuttle bus to the ...

... road to hail a woman who had just crossed with a lunch in her hands, he persuaded her to give it to him and we lurched off down the road with him holding a steaming bowl of potato stew in one hand and a large bun in another. In the interests of road safety Chris offered to nurse the stew – phew!!!! It was hot in Oia and the scenery spectacular, better than all the paintings and post cards depicting it. Even saw an Asian couple having their ...

... both to come crashing into the water which left us with grazes and bruises all over! After spending a few hours there we continued sailing and cooked 2 minute noodles for birthday lunch and lounged on the boat. Also had a lot of swim stops along the way where we'd just anchor in the middle of the ocean and dive off the boat. So cool. And we all had turns holding on to the back of the boat and being dragged along in the water while we were sailing along (not sure if we ...

... turned into quite a spacious bed. And in the main area there was a little sink, fridge, gas stove and lots of storage space - and there was even a bathroom in the middle. Very cool little boats. And so our crew was me, Dean, Erika, Dangerous Dave and Leanne (/ Lee). It was the best crew ever and we seriously had the most amazing time. But I'm getting ahead of myself! So Lee (our captain) had a meeting with the guys in charge of the sailing and all the other ...

... they spend a lot of time relaxing, because they live on an island. I have only one dislike. The water was too cold and dirty for my taste, but there are a lot of swimming pools around, so I didn't need to swim in the open. This journey was a fun journey and I will never forget it.

... out later he recently divorced/wife died? and he was actually best kind) jumps off ferry with us
Lunch of champions (2E gyros+1E pint of Mythos)
Exponential increase in the use of "Whasname" (Callahan loving it)
The realization that without height discussions and saying "Nice!" that Bosh is useless at talking to people
"Front calf" -Abby
The Relish (Welsh): Sam, Erin, Gemma
-Smitty's beer goggles in full effect in believe ...

... that are into riding, but I was on my own, enjoying the scenery all the same. The cycle paths were a little crowded in places but were ok inter city. The problem of getting lost happened when the river started swelling from prior rainfall, slowly rising higher and higher, until the cycle path was totally underwater and impassable. Riding up on the road and looking down at the river showed the full extent of the problem, whole riverside campsites were underwater, ablution blocks ...

... and rolled it back to the villa, down on the lower slopes. We sat outside in the evening watching a pair of large green locust-type insects as they walked along our towels on the washing line. It wasn't until the next day that we noticed they had impregnated the material with a number of eggs, each similar in size and form to a grain of brown rice.

We visited a monastery one hot afternoon. The Moni Pantokratora stands on the summit of the mountain at 906m ...