Greece - Ancient Ruins and a Lava Island

We had a bit of a rough start getting to Greece. We caught a bus from Sorrento to the Naples airport. The bus ride took 2 hours 45 minutes instead of the scheduled 1 hour 15 minutes. We just made our flight to Rome, only to find out that our flight to Athens had been cancelled. We were rebooked on a flight that left later in the evening, which was then delayed. We finally arrived in Athens at 2 a.m. but then had to pick up a rental car and drive to our hotel. We hit the pillows at 4:45 a.m.

Other than this day of drama, everything has been wonderful in Greece. What makes it this way are the people - they are so warm and helpful, even if some of them aren't comfortable with speaking English. However, most of them speak English well.

We drove on the mainland for four days visiting sitees with ancient ruins from B.C. times. Our favourite site was in Olympia because of our love of sports and the Olympic Games.

We have spent the last three days in Perissa on the lava island of Santorini. Everyone is very relaxed here so you can't help but slow down too.

So how has Klas been doing with food? No problems!!! Last night Klas claimed that he had the best meal on the trip. It consisted of pork, chicken, beef burger patty, lamb, fries and rice - carnivor!

Today we head for the island of Mykonos followed by Athens.


Fira, Santorini