Greece is the word

Siestas, frappes, dirty sandwiches, gyros, ruins, myths, beaches, temples, bars, fans that squirt water and the amendment I'm currently negotiating to my employment contract with CC:

Yep, I hardly need to tell you that Greece is heaven.


We started off with a home cooked Greek meal with Alex's parents and my friends from work, Susan and Mark. While Alex and his mother were setting the table, Paul, who has an amazing knack for not being able to tell north from south but being able to read maps, asks which direction the acropolis is in. Suddenly Alex's father is rather confusingly escorting all the Aussies upstairs to the top floor of the family apartment... We stepped out onto the balcony and....















So Alex had failed to mention that his house has a view of the acropolis. Probably not a big deal to Greeks I guess.... But this has pretty much set the standard for our accomodation going forward. Unless it (a) is free and (b) has views of the relevant city's featured attraction - count us out.
Our first night in Athens also set the standard for the nights to come, when dinner finished at about 11 we hit the town. A walk around the acropolis (as close as Susan and Mark managed to get) followed by drinks on a number of terraces, also with fantatic acropolis views. Some of which you may or may not have had to enter through somebody's kitchen....














The first few days we explored Athens and its surrounds, the parthenon, Pareaus (the port) - all the while taking appropriate breaks for sietas and frappes.

By Tuesday Alex had dealt with Greek bureaucracy and was fairly sure that he was licensed to drive and we headed down to the Temple of Poseiden for some ruins and waves....
For Paul's birthday we transformed ourselves into gods (and easier task for some of us than others as you'll see from the photo below) and indulged in the degustation at Spondi.














And in an effort to get this blog published before we head off on our next adventure - I'll let the islands speak for themselves.....