Back to Greece:
My eight days of travel in the Greek Islands were wonderful...totally unexpected, but great, nonetheless. There were not as many colorful buildings as I imagined, but I managed to find a few white houses with blue shutters. Our hostels were clean and cheap...so that was nice. The first four days, we stayed on the island of Santorini. Even though we went during their off-season, we still made many memories. The weather was absolutely gorgeous, in the 80's and 90's except for the last two days.
I can now check swimming in the Agean Sea, eating octopus and squid, riding a donkey from the sea up to the top of Oia, smoking (i didn't inhale) a Cuban on the pier of a fishing port, devouring chocolate crepes for breakfast, seeing the massive volcanos of Fira, and laying out on a black sand beach off my to do list. Wow! Talk about killing two (or 20) birds with one stone...
From Santorini, we took a five star-cruise boat like-ferry to the island of Paros. This place was beautiful and was more of what I had pictured Greece to be. Little restaurants lined the sidewalk along the ocean, all with oversized umbrellas and outdoor couches for sitting. The town was a fishing port, so there were boats and leathery skinned fishermen everywhere. So fun.
As wonderful as our vacation was, I was a little disappointed in the Greeks. Apparently, they only kill lambs one season out of every year...and we missed it.
So, I spent a total of 9 days on Grecian soil and never once tasted lamb. I am terribly distraught by this. Oh well. I'll just have to go back, I guess.
The end.
My eight days of travel in the Greek Islands were wonderful...totally unexpected, but great, nonetheless. There were not as many colorful buildings as I imagined, but I managed to find a few white houses with blue shutters. Our hostels were clean and cheap...so that was nice. The first four days, we stayed on the island of Santorini. Even though we went during their off-season, we still made many memories. The weather was absolutely gorgeous, in the 80's and 90's except for the last two days.
I can now check swimming in the Agean Sea, eating octopus and squid, riding a donkey from the sea up to the top of Oia, smoking (i didn't inhale) a Cuban on the pier of a fishing port, devouring chocolate crepes for breakfast, seeing the massive volcanos of Fira, and laying out on a black sand beach off my to do list. Wow! Talk about killing two (or 20) birds with one stone...
From Santorini, we took a five star-cruise boat like-ferry to the island of Paros. This place was beautiful and was more of what I had pictured Greece to be. Little restaurants lined the sidewalk along the ocean, all with oversized umbrellas and outdoor couches for sitting. The town was a fishing port, so there were boats and leathery skinned fishermen everywhere. So fun.
As wonderful as our vacation was, I was a little disappointed in the Greeks. Apparently, they only kill lambs one season out of every year...and we missed it.
So, I spent a total of 9 days on Grecian soil and never once tasted lamb. I am terribly distraught by this. Oh well. I'll just have to go back, I guess.
The end.
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