Strada Marina Hotel Zakynthos

... tape. Then in Brittany France, Brian bought us both new racks and I was livid! His was repaired and holding fine, and mine wasn’t even broken (yet - he said).

Well, my ‘new’ rack cracked a weld the other day going up and down train station stairs on the way to Venice, and Brian’s went today. Great, 2 broken racks. So out comes the string and ...

... and the other couple on board were Ioannis (John) and his girlfriend, Gianne, from Toronto. Everyone was very nice and got along well.

We set off first to the island of Agistri where we anchored for the night in a beautiful cove. We had great swimming there. The water was deep, clear, and cool- a very welcome relief from the heat. An interesting thing to mention is that the Mediterranean and its connected seas are so heavy in salt that it is virtually impossible to sink ...

Zakynthos is a rather small island in the Ionian Sea and it can be easily reached. If you go by car you will arrive by ferry in Zante, the capital of the island. Zante is the largest town on the island and, in my opinion, the most beautiful. It has small streets, bars, resaurant, shops, and a beautiful promenade. The port is clean and if you look carefully you will find some nice places. Now, it depends what you like, what you want to do, what you came for. If you are a party fun, the ...

... of bronze figurines, pottery and armor that are remanants
of the tributes. The ruins are very vast - like a modern Olympic
villiage they had buildings for officials and athletes with sleeping
quarters, baths, training facilities and of course the stadium.

... to go to the beach; he went swimming straight away and seemed to be having great fun in the rolling and crashing waves - but the grey sky and matching sea were a bit too much like an English beach for me. It tool considerably bullying from Paul for me to venture in, but eventually I went and had to conceded that it was indeed rather splendid splashing about in the mighty waves, even if I did get eyes, ears and nose ...

... not open properly until August. Despite my best efforts, we coulnd't wangle our way in! Still, what there was to see already was very interesting and it looks like it will be an excellent display with an accurate and pleasing acceptance of cross-ethnic influences. As it stands, it would need greater contextualisation for the average visitor - however, this may well be addressed in the whol exhibition.

... see straight to the sandy bottom even if you were in water several feet deep. There were lots of people there and so little umbrellas covered in straw with chairs underneath were all over. What wasn't cute were all the people because everyone, no matter their shape, size, or age, wears bikinis, and that is not always a pretty sight. Another sight that is not so pretty: a good portion of the men in speedos.

The ferry was huge and it was about an hour and ...

Isn't that funny? I love sun, heat, swimming-pool, seaside, but I got bored in such conditions on Zakynthos. I thought as if I was in a cage. Touristic zone, small Porta Koukla, near Laganas - was too small for the city dweller like me. One restaurant and two shops when I could pay with credit cards. Is it EU at all? With such a huge touristic demand and therfore experience they didn't think much of the facilities.

... 382;i se lokalna vina i hrana a sve ovo privlači na hiljade posetioca iz cele Grčke. Festival vina Ovaj festival održava se u glavnom gradu u Zakintosu od kraja avgusta do početka septembra. Svi posetioci u mogućnosti su da probaju izvrsna domaća vina.  Slavlje u čast Spiliotissa Održava se 8. septembra u selu Orthonies. Kao i ostale religiozne priredbe i ova je praćena tradicionalnim plesom, muzikom, hranom i vinom.

We met up with the rest of the group and that made 13 of us travelling to Zakynthos, better known as Zante. We went from the airport to the bus station and bought our coach tickets for the journey. The journey took about 4 hours and the ferry took about an hour. We arrived in Zante and go taxis to the 'studios' the drivers didnt even know where it was so just dumped us on the strip... safe. We ...