Greece....

Greece...

So from Barcelona, Spain. A flight leaves at 11pm headed for Athens, Greece and aboard it are kristie and i.....previously to departure we had been stuck in the barcelona airport...in terminal C...other wise know as ' in the middle of Butt Face nowhere'...about a 15 min walk from the main terminal...Anyway we had a whole 5 hours to kill in 'terminal c'..you could imagine the joy!..then our flight took off..ahhh relief right? i dont think so, kris and i endured a two and a half hour flight of pure A grade turbulence..on our no name airline which to be frank, smelt like fish.

so we get off from 'turblance airways' - 2.25am - Athens airport....metro to our hostel does not start running till 6am....well well another few hours to kill in the airport..kris and i played cards, slept next to a homeless person then at 5 am decided to go to Mac Donalds for the remainder of our time...we had a joyous breakfast...so did the lady next to us...she had a big mac biggi meal with about 5 cigarettes...mmmmm..the traditional greek breakfast (becuase in greece you can smoke anywhere you like...disgusting).

(4am athens airport)

after some trouble actually figuring out the greek rail sytem, we arrived at our 1 star hostel.... only to find we couldn' check into 12pm.. so we drop of our bags and went right into athens for some sight seeing... now im going to put this a nicely as possible for any greeks out there who r reading this.. athens is a bit behind its fellow europian capitals, with its constent stench, and dirty streets, similar to what u would find in india...(trust me i no)

so we found out that the only thing , and i mean ONLY thing to do in athens was to go see the Acropolis, which literally means a high city. For purposes of defense, it is the ancent city in which the parthanon stands, and although it is 'tourist' city, it is definatly spectacular and big!!!

that evening we checked into our shoebox of a room and headed out for dinner with a girl we met on contiki and her bro and friend Nat..who we will be doing the greek islands with.

so the next day in athens we hung out with them and visited some markets, before catching a ferry to mykonos (6am ferry might i add) - our first stop on the greek islands. while on the ferry we got some great news that a turkish ferry - similar to the one we were on sank...!!! comforting!

ok now on to more positive stuff... the greek islands...!!!!

Mykonos....otherwise know for its homosexuality...so we both fitted in just fine....Expecialy Al

we hopped off the boat to be flooded by people hawking accomodation...we found a nice aussi guy and got accommodation for 10 euros...the place we stayed was beautfiul...small rooms...but beuatiful sandy beachs and lagoon like swimming area full with sea life and naked old men and women....yep! if you cant beat them join them...so we did...?...nt...

The main town ´was built to confuse pirates and boy did it confuse us a number of times...though it did not matter beacuse the whole town was stunning...cute small streets lined with white buildings either side and framed with blue windows, not to mention (for kristies sake) that there was an abundance of gorgeous shops. So no need to say that we had a fantastic two nights there.

(Mykonos)

(Pool at Mykonos)

(Party?)

(the girls and their erotic\amazing strawberry and nutella crepe)

(Ps we were meant to go to ios, but that fell through due to ferries).

(santorinis beach)

Santorini - the famous sunset island, here we also got lucky and stayed at perissa beach, its beach fornt is lined with heaps of funky bars and restraunts...and because we were there just out of peak season everything was half price or more...so cocktails for 3euro...enough said...kris, i and our friends from contiki spent most of our time on the beach. When we wernt we were either on a quad or a scooter flying around the island seeing the sights, and ultimatly going around the the best spot to see the sunset, might i add we had the best dinner at a cliff side tabled that overlooked the sunset...yep yep. on a bad note it acutally rained whilst we were there! what! i know! the locals said it was the first rain all year, and it rained heavy for about 5 hours, and when it was at its heaviest i was driving a qaud with kristie on the back, exposed to natures elements. none the less the photos can show you how wet i got. by the by did i meantion the beachs are black? they actually also have a red beach.

(santorinis buildings and the hansom couple and some old chicky in the back taking a photo, in turn ruining ours)

(Cocktails baby!)

(How wet my front half got on the quad)

(the beautiful where we had dinner overlooking the sunset)

(santorini sunset, it lives up to its name)

(our sexy Scooters!)

(Lunch overlooking red beach)

Which Brings me to the last 24 hours.....in short...a nine hour ferry from santorini to athens (which had no organiation..i had to flight old grandmas to get mx bags in a amd dash to get off the boat where it was a fight club), a night in athens (at this funky hotel, see picture), bed time 1.30am...woke up at 6.30...caught a bus the the airport...two hours at the air port...1.45min flight to Rome....Two hours in rome....1.30min flight to Veinna...Train from veinna airport to our hostel...arrival time 7pm.....though it was a fun day, exhastion took over and we laughed about everything till we could not contain ourselves.

(Singing 'happy birthday Mr. President' whilst on the ferry) )

(on the tarmac at rome, suffering from overtierdnessnessness, symptoms include delusion, nausea, frustration, un controlled laughter)

(our phycadelic hotel, and yes i am fat)

So here we are in vienna, which so far looks amazing, we are staying in a uni residence which is good enough, though it is about 17C here, which is cold for us. Another thing, tonight there is a madonna concert on here and tomorrow is coldplay, so kris and i are going to try and get tickets to that.

(tying to work out the menu in vienna, which was a confusing shape and in german)

Today in Vienna - All i can say is that Austria has got things right, everything about this place fits in, there up to date with everything, things run like clockwork and everyone is really friendly. Vienna is full of parks, historical buildings, trams and clean streets.

Tomorrow to Zagreb, Croatia

(ps for a few more photos, (if you need it?) are on Kristies FaceBook)

over and out

Love Kris and Al

Miss You all