5 Days in Grecian Paradise

Tuesday night we returned from the most relaxing trip I've had all year. It was truly wonderful. Our original plans to stay in Athens at a friends apartment fell thru just days before our departure, but the hotel we got and the whole trip turned out for the better. As i was going through my almost 1000 pictures i realized there is just SO much to show... patience, please! :)

Our trip started in Rome where a friend of Bhargavi's picked us up from the train station and drove us to Fiumicino. We took the scenic route.

Grecian Countryside. We decided it was a mix between Isreal and... can't remember.

Our first encounter with the greek language.

Trying to find out hotel... walking through the ghetto.Welcome To ATHENS!!

Balcony View from Hotel Pergamos!
hot dog salesmanWatch stand in Omonia SquareWe learned that the Greeks REALLY like their puff pastry baked goods.

Food Market-- Beautiful Produce!
The Greeks also like fancy toiletseats with sealife in them.
Dinner on the Balcony at Sunset
Athenian Center! McyD's and Construction!
Acropolis/Metropolis/Subway and Ancient stuff.
"Statue of Goddess Perhaps Aphrodite- Early 4th Century B.C.E"
Making our Way to the Top of Athens
Kelly and Athens!
Athens Cityscape again.
Acropolis covered in Scaffolding
Me & The Ancient Ampitheater
Temple of Nike Athena
My best goddess Stand
International Bird flies by the Acropolis
Ladies & the Parthenon
(Me, Dani, Kelly, Bhargavi, Taylor and Lindsay)
Unexpected turtle friend at the Acropolis drew quite a crowd.
Cool grafitti in Plaka districtLooking for where to go.. a sum of the trips characters
Coolest bar i've never been inside of.
sponge lady
Athenian street artFor Dan: SKATEBOARDERS IN ATHENS!
Greek CokeChanging of the Guards... he was a hawtie
They had some ridiculous moves.
Street food... Tomatoe and feta filled pastries... YUM!
I think he liked us...
Street Singer and the usual Grecian Admirers
Byzantine art in the city center.
We were there for Greek Orthodox Carnival!!
A nice shop owner... Stratos.
In the kitchen of a touristy greek 'straunt.
REAL Greek salad... No Lettuce!
Baklava and Greek Coffee!
The Greek Leftovers... Ew.
On our Ferry to SANTORINI!
Feeling like Immigrants in the ships bowels.
View of Santorini.
Bharg and Kell sit at the Bus Stop.
Cucumbers and Stuft Vine Leaves!
Narly Shrimp... yum eyeballs.
CRISTOS the CAR and LINDS the DRIVER!
On the way to the Grocery store
SO proud of our baby!
Wooo!!! Beaches, Blue Car, and Beautiful Friends!
"The Church" Of Santorini?
Me and Taylor and the Black sand Beaches
Malibu and strawberry girlie drinks on the beach!
View from the Ancient City of Thira which we drove up on the
windiest one land road, ever.
A friend from the beach led us on his bike...
a View of Santorini
Church just feet from the red volcanic beach.
Sunset at Oía
More sunset.
Lunch, poolside.
Our hotel, "The Villa Manos" and their sadly empty pool.
Last shot in Greece before my camera died.

All in all, greece is a crazy place where they still smoke indoors. The last day in Athens was kinda rainy but interesting. There was a communist party march through the streets, it was on again off again raining and we found this most amazing junk store where if you go upstairs you find the most magnificent apartment flat in all of Greece, filled with cool junk. I saw a man selling American pennies and quarters for .50 euro cents. We had too many spanicopita's... spinach and feta filled pasteries... and coffee and too many catcallers. It was a little early for tourist season so the island wasn't all it could be, but driving around it in our little Cristos was amazing. We literally hit every end we could. including some scary prohibited military base we didn't know we were driving up to.
Something odd we noticed about Greece... there aren't any women. Especially on Santorini. All the women we saw were either tourists or old grandmothers or 10 years old. It was like they'd shipped them all off or kept them locked up in the home. The younger girls we did see in Athens and Santorini were dressed up in these wretched goth outfits with hair teased out beyond belief.
The country is an odd mix of eastern europe and the middle east, Bharg says it's what India strives to be... and I think the boys are too cute. Their feta cheese is truly superior... But if you're going to Greece to find hummus, you better look again. Cause they don't even know what that stuff is.

Happy St. Patricks day, Happy Birthday Mom and Happy Spring break to all those starting now!