Greece

Sorry......I'm about a month and a half late on the last two parts to my saga (Greece, Turkey and Paris)...I will be rather short in my words since it was all a while back and I will not spend more than a few hours to quickly summarize the whole bit. It's weird, now that I'm permanently stationed somewhere and working, I don't have the time at all for internet. There's so much to discover here (you'll find out where later) and so much good partying going on with all of the other seasonnairs. so...................

Athens

Well first thing we did was test out the gyros at the eventual best and cheapest place in town, just around the corner from our best and cheapest hostel. I love these sandwiches normally and it was really cool to get them so cheap, and full of tzizaki. HMMMMmmmmmm !!!!!!!!

Athens is rather smoggy and super hot, even in late october, but the vibe of the place is really cool. All of the history and life in this massive metropolitan are a good mix to keep you busy for a while. I don't have any pics to put up since I had to transfer off of my camera but you can go see everything on snapfish.....

The Acropolis is everything it lives up to be, you really feel something while you're there. All of the monuments are just insane !! And just walking through the various areas is cool. A lot of tourists obviously, but the city itself is just so huge !!!!!! half of the Greek population lives in Athens and its surroundings.

Andre and I had a great time but only stayed 2 days cause the ferries were getting very scarce for the islands. So we took off for Santorini.

Santorini

Just friggin amazing. Talk about a perfect romantic place for couples, this place is majestic. The old stucco white houses, and blue roofs and the whole scenery is just beautiful (go check out the pics on snapfish!). We showed up at 11pm and werent sure where we would stay, but there were hotel guys waiting for us, and whisked us into the main town Fira. We snagged a kick ass room with double bed and private bathroom, and kitchen access, all for 35€ a night cause it was low season......ROCKIN' !!!!!!!!!

From Fira, you can go all over the island with the buses. So we checked out everything possible. The volcanic rock black beaches, also the red and white beaches, hiking up the mountain to see the whole island shaped like a crescent, and took a tour to the active volcanoe island which sits within the middle of the crescent.......AWESOME !!!!!

Although low season, there wasn't many people and we didn't go out much but we had such a good chill time enjoying the area and each other....

Then we stopped over at Mikanos for a day because of the ferry scheduling. Not so good because of the weather but again we chilled a bit and it was bound to rain at some point....we'd been full of shit with the good weather all summer long. Nice town and island anyways. But again, low-season and rather dead. I atleast have 1 pic from here........the sunsets from Santorini are supposed to be the best and it was quite nice from Oia at the northern tip of the island, but this sunset can't be spit on neither.

Then we went via Samos to Turkey on the last day the ferries were running.....kinda lucky cause we didn't know till the day before that it would be the last day, Oct. 31st. After that, it is officially winter in Greece and all of the ferries to Turkey stop.

so....next time will be Turkey with some pics!!!