Ok, it's actually Sept 23 and I'm back in Hong Kong, but I'm finally getting my butt in gear to finish the final week of my travel blog.  A fair amount happened, so instead of creating a mega-entry, I'll be back-dating the rest of the entries.  Hopefully my memory still will resurrect the highlights in some detail.

Although the entertainment value of this entry will almost certainly fall into the "you had to be there" category, I feel the need to write it down, if only because the critical question became our catch phrase for the remainder of our time together.

This was during the barbeque Mikael, Fredrik and I had on Thursday ( Read more... )

My eyes popped open at noon, and then again at 13:00.  I dragged myself out of bed and headed over to Mikael and Fredrik's room, where my knock woke them up.  We were all pretty bleary, but eventually we were on our way to Santa Maria beach, after pausing first for breakfast at Vanessa's restaurant to try to get the recovery process started.

Santa ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a pretty good day.  The plan was to head for Kolombithres Beach, which is near Paros' second "city," Naousa, on the north coast.  On the way there, I passed one of the many little brown road signs that point tourists towards items of historical interest.  This one said "Mycaenaean Acropolis," which sounded kind of cool, so I took a ( Read more... )

So I have essentially finished with my accommodations issues for the rest of the island portion of my trip.  I decided to skip Naxos and just stay here on Paros, which will give me time to delve into the island significantly more in detail than at Mykonos - or, indeed, at any of my other stops.  Sometimes you just gotta pause (that's POW-zuh).  ( Read more... )

So I landed on Paros at about 14:00, and had successfully maneuvered to be the first one off the boat. I straightaway ran into someone pimping rooms at his guest house, and I picked one up for 55 Euros/night. I'm currently scheduled to stay here for only 2 nights and then moving on to Naxos, but since he has availability, I'm thinking of skipping ( Read more... )

Successfully made it to the new port of Mykonos, where I caught my ferry to Paros.  It was about a 2km walk, fortunately all downhill.  The sirocco (or Greek equivalent) was blowing strongly, making me glad I decided not to bring my contacts on this trip, as the dust was murderous enough.  I think the coating on my sunglasses has been sandblasted ( Read more... )

So I just got back to Mykonos Town, and of course have immediately ( Read more... )

I just could not be bothered to get up this morning in time for the ferry to Delos. It's not that I was out that late last night (got in ~01:00), but between the fairly poor bed and all of the physical activity of the previous day (dancing, an interesting hike, both of which more later, and did the walk from the new place twice, and ye gods is ( Read more... )

No, not that. I managed to get to the beach today after moving into my new digs, which are about 700m from town downhill - I'm not looking forward to the walk uphill tonight. The populace is not as aggressively skin-tastic as the Bulgarians - swimsuits are a bit more conservative compared to the Rio-esque nature of many of the outfits I saw on ( Read more... )