Poseidon Resort Loutráki

I thought since I was in Greece and they are known for there many islands, I thought it was past-due for a little island hopping and some beach. So I booked a my 1-hour ferry a few days prior. <br><br>I ended up missing my morning ferry because I was trying to mail my new souvenir vase back home in one piece. The first post office I went to wouldn't take any boxes. So I had ...

... on talking. This conversation had a lot of smiling and head knodding. <br><br>We caught the boat back to Athens and went to our hostel. We showered (used towels from the linen closet we found--- oh the joys of fresh towels!) and took a bus to the airport. We werent really tired when we first got there, so we killed time by eating pistachios and trying to land the shells in Ryan's hofbrauhaus mug. <br><br>We went to sleep around 3, and woke up at 8 for our flight to London at 9:15. <br>

Apparently, Nero took the first ceremonial spade full of dirt out and then ...

... and mosaics that are all well over 2000 years old. It was interesting to see how ancient Corinth had been set up. It was also interesting to see how complex their art and architecture was so long ago. Just outside the site you could look over the ruins of an ancient theater that stretched all the way down the hill. It was all a somewhat successful day of sight seeing in Corinth despite all the transportation issues and confusion for the first half of the day.

... transport continued with the round Battleship Rock race in a Laser 4000; the first time we've sailed the race together. We finished in second place (due to conditions, honest...) but more importantly had a really good sail. And to round things off, we went for our first yacht sail of the season on Friday afternoon on 'Marina' - out to the Spetses channel for a few runs up and down and then anchored in Hinitsa bay for a swim while the locals rocked at a powerboat ...

... beneath the surface. Across the bay is the island of Thirasia which is actually the other rim of the volcano and was once part of the same island. Unfortunately I didn't get to visit either the islands/volcano or the site of ancient Thira or the black beach given that I only had 2.5 days there and I wanted to really hang out in my beautiful hotel and check out Fira and Oia properly. I admit - I was a bit sceptical about whether it would live up the hype. I ...

... a lot less. Staying at a wee hotel in the middle of Athens, right under the Acropolis we had been expecting it to be traffic ridden, noisy and polluted. We were completely wrong. It was fairly quiet, situated in a pedestrian area from which all of the main sites could be seen on foot. The place is amazing! With the exception of the summit of the Acropolis, all the major historic sites are uncrowded, easily accessible and for around &euro;12 you can visit loads of them ...

... sad to say goodbye to the Acropolis and the Greek salads. The flight home was uneventful, but as we got closer to landing, we started seeing fireworks all over the city of London. It was the craziest things to see fireworks below us, then the same level, and finally landing and having to look up to see them. I'm still not too sure what the occasion was, but I think it was some kind of Indian holiday. Totally beautiful, and they kept ...

... it was 6:06am!!! "Oh sh*t! Eugine, wake up. It's 6am." We packed in about 1 minute and headed out to the airport, making it on time. After the rather hectic morning, we had a very long layover in Athens, while waiting for our flight to Istanbul. We used the time in the airport to read our respective novels and study up on Turkey.

... For now, it was time to see an event. We didn't have tix but were immediately approached by a local scalper as we emerged from underneath the tram tracks. We told the man that we wanted to see swimming to which he pulled out a stack of tix. We bought a pair of EUR 45 tix for EUR 30 each. This showed us immediately the tix situation we would be facing later in the day when we would try to sell the extra gymnastics tix we had...and looking back, we overpaid for those swimming tix ...