Europe 2007

Okay, im tired gona make this entry short and sweet. Just every min of Greece it was totally totally amazing and such crazy fun!

Volos, Skiathos and Skopelos were very quite, preety and beachy places. Met plenty of other people but mainly british holiday couples. Due to the heat there was a forest fire in volos, quite scary but know where near me. I am coming back to Skopelos on 10th Aug to work here in a hotel for the rest of summer, yipppeee!

Had a ten hour ferry to Mykonos, yes the gay island and very true at that, but this was my fav island. So characteristic, the town is very charming with millions of cobbled streets that everyone gets lost on. Met a swiz guy called Daniel and we stayed a beautiful apartment about 10 mins from the town together, it had a pool and was on a cliff overlooking this white sandy beach, fab ey! Went to a great party all night long at Paradise beach but some of the guys were a bit to full on shall we say which slightly ruined it. In the town i had sword fish for lunch, saw the famous pelicans and took pics of the landmark windmills.

The ferrys in greece are so easy to use so again I got one to Ios. I had not heard of this island before so being a bit septicle only booked for 1 night. I have to say I changed my booking to three nights because it was a mega mega party island. I met hundreds of travellers from everywhere. At night the streets are filled with music, beer and dancing. The first night was an early one at 5 am but stayed partying til 7 the next day the third day I was well - felt dead! But it was so much fun, you wouldnt recgonise me, I was drinking ouzo and beer and dancing all night to dance and trance music, so so crazy! I was very sad to leave but had to because I couldnt handle anymore!!

I just wanted to sight see and sleep in Santorini, this was not to be. I arrived at my hotel and met two american guys and a british guy all travelling together. I dont remember much about this night other than I slept in a jeep on the beach about one hour drive from my apartment, so crazy I know. The next day I went to the black sand beach to sleep and the day after did a tour of the famous volcano and hot spring spa's. This was a nice island and very different, glad I saw it but I wont be back.

Okay so where Im at now.... Arrived in Pireaus the port of athens at 1 am this morning, checked into a hotel which looked like a motel out of the blues brothers film. It was quite and the room had aircon but it was not worth 60 euros but I Just needed sleep so I didnt care. I got a taxi to the bus station, I was petrified I didnt think the driver understood me and thought he was taking me to patras my end destination, luckily however he didnt, but i know he riped me off, all part of the experience I guess! So right now iv just had a chicken roast dinner with greek salad and have a 18 hour ferry overnight back to italy. Tomorrow I have a night in Brindisi again and the day after an over night ferry to Croatia, phew blimy sounds alot ey!

Anyway must dash, sorry for amy grammer, spelling for whatever mistakes (im rushing) miss you all loads, speak to you soon byeeeeee xxxx

Its 43 deg and too hot to write, but at the mo im in Skiathos, so Preety but full of brits so im heading to Skoplos at the end of the week. Will up date this soon, on my own now, James annoyed me too much and I needed to be by myself again. Missing you all really really much, speak to you soon xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

There are a few worlds that I would like to describe Athens as:

VERY HOT, SMELLY, BUSY IN TOURSITS, EXTREMLY BUSY IN TRAFFIC BUT TOTALLY AMAZING........ I cant say Athens is beautiful but very historic, my hostel (although pricey) was full of like minded travellers and situated so close to the acroplolis you could almost touch it, whats more is that it had a roof bar with the cheapest drinks in town, what more could I want!

The first day was spent travelling was Patras to Athens so really a wasted day, I spent the second day exploring on my own, craziliy I headed for the Acroplols at 12.00 noon it 40 deg heat, this I discovered was sucide because there were millions of steps and It was such hard work. I made the top, it was unbeliveble and definatly one of the true wonders of the world. I felt like I had reached the gate of heaven, so so so amazing and the views... well where do I begin. I did see Zeus, Olympia and the other main sights but nothig was as good compared to the Acropolis.

I had adopted James that I met in Brindisi as my travell companion for Greece. After a few nights in Athens we both decided to head north