Oasis Hotel Perama

... are available for passengers to enjoy a beverage from the very extensive menu. The first palatable white wine in ages goes down well as we consider our new and very modern environment. A cinema, casino, restaurant, wifi, pool and dancing area are also available to pass the time if you so wish. The kind lady at the ticket office also happened to give us a cabin for the price of a deck passage. On board, a very friendly and gallant gentleman shows us ...

... 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 ...

... bumped and pushed and cut in front of and argh. It's like, ya'll, we're going to the same place. Relax. We're going to get there. Ugh. But, I'm trying to forgive and be forgiven. But I have to admit I've cursed like 19 of them prior to the whole forgiving thing.

Tonight was our first formal night. It was really fun. I absolutely loved seeing all the older folks dressed up. So many of them went all out with tuxes, or 'old-person' ruffled suits and bow ties. And ...

... stumbled onto his knees and nearly projected them headfirst onto the brick path. It then proceeded to veer towards every tourist who was walking, attempting to crush them against the rock wall. Much arm waving and untranslatable obscenities did nothing to deter this donkey from his mission. Between tourists he would attempt to wipe Ryan and Chris from his back by rubbing against every telephone pole. From several zig zags up the hill all Robyn could ...

... LEAVE ME. I DIDN'T KNOW YOU WERE ALL UP HERE" and we were like "umm Dave, you'd been up here and just went down to get your wallet" and he had zero memory of being at the restaurant at all...... And forgot to get his wallet. Fun times.

After dinner we kept escaping back to the boats for more drinks and chilling in this lounge area by the pool and then I got sung happy birthday too and bought birthday shots and Matt had even organised an ice-cream cake. So sweet ...

... 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.

... a little bit along the beach, which is described in all the books that I've read as a long wide sandy beach, but in reality only part of it has sand on it and the part in front of the Pink Palace is very stony. I discovered that the reason for this is that they ship in sand to cover the beach at the beginning of the season, and this normally gets replenished it as time goes by. This season, however, they failed to do that. Looking up from the beach ...

... Dr. George (owner of hostel) lifting flaming table with teeth
-plate smashing over everyone's head (woke Smitty up with his)
-Smitty driving L-Bow and Jess home in a golf cart (got that Callaham?)
-Smitty passing out on the ******* after taking el cruncho maximo

Mikey and John's story
-caught with hash,
-owner/crazy mobster "I'll ****ing cut your nuts off, dump your body in a river then go get a coffee" "**** all ...

... laugh. As I began riding away from the border I started sizing up the situation. I was in Albania now and there were no Asphalt roads to be seen, just muddy gravel routs going up and down through the hilly terrain. As I pedaled through these roads the crossing drivers, mostly taxis, probably accustomed to these conditions, were smiling, waiving and honking their horn at me. As it began to rain again, riding trough the muddy, puddle filled road, I had ...