Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Greek Cruise Overall Impressions

Alright so I'm desperately trying to catch up to the near present in my posting so bear with me here people. I have a feeling you'll enjoy these next 5 posting at least on a visual standpoint. Really you don't have to read any further, the pictures of the Beautiful Islands on Greece will explain themselves.
What I am going to do is break up each day in to a different post that way the pictures stay organized and it should make things a lot easier for both you the reader as well as me.
Anyways Jordan and I took a nice lovely cruise though the Greece with Contiki, we met up with a bunch of people our age from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the USA. The cruise line itself wasn't the nicest I've ever been on but after spending time in Europe you get used to their type of accommodations so I dealt with it. The best part about the cruise and one of the main reasons we went was because of the "free" food and drink all week. I saw free because we technically paid in advance, but after eating 5 course meals at every setting and running the bars out of their finest liqueurs I'm pretty sure the cruise line took a loss on our room.
Greece itself is beautiful. I'd recommend it to anyone and would encourage them to go out and visit the islands as they are much prettier and cleaner than Athens. I've never seen anything like it, all the white buildings cut into the cliffs and on hill with blue window frames. It's hard to believe that some of these islands didn't even have electricity or running water 20 years ago! And the women oh my god! Beautiful! I feel in love every 30 seconds when my feet were on land. Jack Kerouac said it best,
"A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world."
What made it worse is the fact some would talk to me in Greek assuming I was Greek. I've never had to blow off such beautiful women in my life and hope I never have to again. I decided I might have to move to Greece later on in life or maybe Italy (after learning the language) since its basically the same thing, to find my wife.
Back to the cruise. We took a 5 day trip where we visited about 2 islands a day it usually worked out pretty nice as we would be at one island in the morning go explore come back for a free lunch dock on a different island, watch the sun go down, board the boat get a free dinner then party! We visited the Athens, Mykonos, Rhodes, Turkey, Patmos, Santorini, and Crete. I'm glad to have the chance to see all of them as each one had something unique about it although Santorini definitely was the best.
Anyways enjoy the posts as they arrive!

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