Marbella Hotel & Bungalows Benitses

... Greek wine and their local Ouzo. I ate Pastitsia, a pie with layers of pasta and meat but I kept eating Stee's dinner of this fish cooked in peppers and onions. Vance doesn't do fish so he had a harder time with the menu options. Everyone was in a great mood so we ended up just sitting and talking and laughing and drinking and eating for quite awhile.

Hello Friends!!!<br><br>I'm torn between it being a relief and a disappointment that I now speak English freely among all the other English-speaking folks. (I'm on the cruise.) While there are over 40 countries represented by visitors, America absolutely took the cake by almost triple that of any other country. I also don't know whether I'm proud of that fact or embarrassed by it. You might say that I'm going through a patriotic self-crisis.<br><br>The cruise has been fan ...

... the gym hence leaving Robyn and Olivia play copious card games together. We seem to be in the dining room all the time and the food is fabulous. Chris helped himself to the bottle of water on the table, the first night at dinner, only to find later that it is priced like gold and had been purchased by the guests we shared the table with. They must have thought us real plebs.<br><br>Our first stop was Corfu and the weather, fabulous and warm. Walked ...

... 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 ...

... to break 2 pairs on this trip already and we walked down to the harbour to get some tickets for the boat to Italy it was really cheap only 23 euro to get there so thats booked for tomorrow. Jen tell Antonio that we are going to Bari now instead of Brindisi so I will see his home town :)<br><br>Got some really nice Gyros for lunch again ha ha bought Heat magazine to get up to date with all the rubbish gossip and sat and relaxed for an hour or so ...

... facilities and I went over to see how much it was 106 euros a night for a room which isnt too bad its a really cool place somewhere I would like to stay rather than here its cruel torture seeing all that luxery next door when I have toe nails and hairs in the shower ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh<br><br>Anyways last night so had a few beers with everyone and a Greek dinner of pasta shapes with cheese grated on top ha ha with that special Greek salad again.

... the hostel which was down a really steep cliff no way of getting back up to the village apart from walking so I dont think I will be seeing much of the island! Although the view down to the sea and the little fishing harbour is amazing we sat why Brian went off to find us a room. This is when all the fun started the place is like a run down hovel they have a swimming pool which is not finished with old toys and ...

Just a quick note. Spent a fabulous day on Corfu. This is what you think of when you think of Greece. We rented motor bikes and crusied the island. I will update more when we get back to Rome on Tuesday.<br><br>Love to all,<br>Davo and Janet

... t think existed in Albania. The lady spoke perfect English and confirmed that no there was no camping, but if we had a car we could stop anywhere and no one would mind. So off we went to find a place near the beach to stop for the night. We ended up at Ksamili and found a car park next to some nice little coves. It was quiet developed and touristy, lots of Italians seemed to be about, and their driving was not any better then the Albanians! The water was great and we swam ...

... passing male motorists almost from the moment I left. We didn't have much time to talk about it as a Greek man, moustachiod and sunglassed, appeared on a scooter. "Are you the guys looking for the condominium ?", he asked in an American accent.<br><br> His name was Jerry and he asked if I'd just been talking to,a "grumpy old *******". I said that I probably had. He said that he had said to the shopkeeper that we had gone too far (i.e. Michelle and I, in terms of ...