Belated Photos of Greece

Its been ages since I've been able to sit my rump down and do some updating because the last month has been all over the place. SO we went to greece. It was bloody amazing. So much like Australia though that Tony got homesick. We stayed in the Plaka (old city) in athens which was a walk away from the acropolis which seems to STILL be under construction a few thousand years after they began it. So below is the acropolis at night



The Greeks are fantastic... all the men are named Nick from what I can tell and every single conversation they have is held at full volume with more hand gestures than an italian orchestral conductor convention. The absolute highlight of Athens was a tortise that we shall call 'Keeper of the Monuments' who was wandering around a statue exhibit at the foot of the acropolis. For the sake of Greek tradition... We shall call him/her Nick.



We then flew out to Santorini the next day. Its the rim of a giant exploded volcano with a younger version of the same beastie forming again in the middle. Every now and then it impolitely burps out a bit of gas and the island has to rebuild again. We'd booked a taxi from the airport and were collected by a brisque guy (named Nick) who informed us that 'others' were still coming. The others turned out to be a couple from the States and Bolivia (respectively) who had met in Bahrain years ago... small world. We then all proceeded to form a mutual bond of screaming for our lives as our cab driver competed for the greatest 'number of blind corners on cliffs that you can take on the wrong side of the road' title. I think he won.

So we were deposited at Ia or Oia (No one pronounced the O... I think its just there to make the tourists feel like wallys) and found out that its all walking from there. All the way down little windy streets, up and down steps until we were taken out to the edge of a cliff and told this is where we'd be staying. Once I picked Tony up from his faint we realised that there were steps headed down the sheer drop and we were downstairs from the tiny little building that we could see in front of us.



We managed to spend an unbelievable 8 days killing ourselves walking our incredibly unfit asses off and ate a lot of dodgy food but all up it was an amazing holiday in a really beautiful location... below are just a few more pictures from our balcony and around Oia. The one overlooking the sea with the pink flowers was taken by me sitting on the balcony and the town ones were from there too