Destination: Greece

Day 28

Wed, 4 Aug 2010 | By lannigan | Views [554]

The drive to Agio Vasili took about 2.5 hrs with a stop for coffee along the way. I went in Thanasi’s car and along the way we stopped at a monastery called Panageia Elena. They were in the process of doing some rennos on ... Read more >

Day 27

Wed, 4 Aug 2010 | By lannigan | Views [379]

Today stared off the same as yesterday, breakfast then off to Boza for a swim, which again was amazing, before going back to Theo Vasili’s house for lunch. After lunch we went for a walk around the village before going to Theo ... Read more >

Day 26

Wed, 4 Aug 2010 | By lannigan | Views [398]

I shared a room with Peter and Michael last night and I was the first one to fall asleep, Michale would have been quite happy to stay up all night chatting about my favourite guns, movies, games and what to do in case of a zombie ... Read more >

Day 25

Wed, 4 Aug 2010 | By lannigan | Views [474]

This morning Katina and I headed out to see the Acropolis and the Acropolis museum. As soon as we got their Katina turned into an encyclopaedia on ancient Greek history and mythology, it was brilliant to learn all the things ... Read more >

Day 24

Wed, 4 Aug 2010 | By lannigan | Views [431]

Fortunately I had packed last night because I was woken up today with the news that the Kalymnos star ferry wasn’t running so we had to get on another earlier “Ferry.” We all got taxi’s down to where you get the ferries from ... Read more >

Day 23

Wed, 4 Aug 2010 | By lannigan | Views [420]

Officially the last day of the programme. We got to the school nice and early and started the presentations, I went second so I could get it over and done with, and I went pretty well even if I say so myself, only slipped up ... Read more >

Day 22

Wed, 4 Aug 2010 | By lannigan | Views [354]

Today we had to get up bright and early and head to school for the final day of working on assignments so as you can imagine this will be a very interesting day to write about… NOT!!! *said in Borat voice* We got to the ... Read more >

Photos: Greece - Athens

Mon, 2 Aug 2010 | By pauluiza | Photo Gallery

Greece - Athens .. Acropolis Now!!!!

Mon, 2 Aug 2010 | By pauluiza | Views [968]

After a 6 hour boat trip (Blue Star Ferries) from Naxos we are off to Athens for 3 days. We caught up with our best mates from Brazil,(Katia, Andre and Duda) for a 2 day whirlwind tour of the Acropolis, the Archaelogical Museum, Hadrian's Arch, Temple ... Read more >

Tags: sightseeing

Naxos - the end

Sun, 1 Aug 2010 | By pauluiza | Views [681]

Well, after 2 months of relaxation and good times it's time to head to Athens to catch up with some good friends from Brazil. It's gonna be hard to say goodbye, we've been so welcomed here! Lots of free wine and good cheap food. We stayed at Stratos ... Read more >

Day 21

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 | By lannigan | Views [382]

This morning we went to two places before the school. One was one of only four government run schools for kids and people with learning disabilities which was good to see, they had nicer toilets, showers and baths than our hotel, which might I add ... Read more >

Day 20

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 | By lannigan | Views [337]

We started off today with a morning trip to an ancient ruined temple to Apollo which had a church built next to it in the Byzantine stage. The old temple was pretty cool, you could walk into it and have a look around, there was also a little museum ... Read more >

Day 19

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 | By lannigan | Views [439]

Nothing special happened during the day today, just another boring day working on our assignments at school. After school though we went to the Kalymnos museum which was better than expected some very cool and interesting thing found in the waters ... Read more >

Day 18

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 | By lannigan | Views [364]

This day marked the start of what looks like it will be a very intense week. The morning started off with George Frazis telling us all about how much work we would be doing everyday so we can get our assignments finished. Directly after this he told ... Read more >

Day 16-17

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 | By lannigan | Views [382]

I’ve combined these days because they were combined for us on the trip. We started off the morning by going to a park where they were excavating some tombs, all we were allowed to see was the outside wall of the tombs. After the park we went to Bergina, ... Read more >