Hotel Regina
Travel Blogs from Vassilatika
Expectation, pleasure and price
... next bus going to Pelekas, where the backpackers hostel was, was leaving at 7pm, in 3 hours! So i decided i had enough time to walk out of the town and find some nice area to camp for the night. I walked for about half an hour around the airport and entered a promising path leading to a construction site, crowded by trucks and machines. It was a sunday, so everything was stopped. I passed through it all until the other side, where I continued walking into ...
Corfu just in the front
The 7 hours bus ride from Tirana to Sarande was peculiar. What is called national road in Albania is not more than a bumpy narrow dirt path going north to south. The way was asfalted around half of the way, and when it was not, theminibus was jumping so much that it was hardly possible to even read along the way. However, the way was offering really interesting countryside landscapes to see, crowded by ...
No False Modesty Required
... classy" tour guide that imposed a somewhat unorthodox get-to-know-you game to all of us on the ATV Safari. Rather than describe my thoughts on the "game," I'll just write down the questions for you:
1) Name?
2) Where you're from?
3) Favorite Color?
4) Your Stoplight (Green= Single, Red= Taken, Yellow= What Happens at the Pink Palace, stays at the Pink Palace)
5) Favorite Sexual Position?
6) Last time ...
Farewell to Greece
... and left the room as quickly as possible. We grabbed a quick breakfast on the go, then went over to the Port Police's car park to pick up Rhys’ bike – which was waiting for us just as we had left it.
After rearranging a few things we were on the road, the Port in Piraeus is huge! And we discovered this as we took a wrong turn, and when we eventually asked for directions we ended up riding the whole distance of the port! It ...
Learning to speak a bit of Greek
... have missed some of the high points of Corfu, but with the little time we had ashore, it wasn't a bad way to spend the day. We decide tonight to eat in the restaurant instead of the help-yourself section and take our chances with seating. You can book ahead, but we're never that organized. We have been told if you are happy to sit with just anyone it is easy enough to get a table, so that's what we do and meet a nice Australian ...