Since our trip was with Bus2Alps all we had to do was show up Friday morning around 9am at termini station in Rome and rode a bus to acacoa and then got on a cruise ship to overnight cruise to Greece! The cruise was pretty cool and all considering it was a ferry. It has two bars and a discoteca. We upgraded to cabins instead of the airplane style seating so we could have a nice night of sleep. In the discoteca there were 13 year old greek/italian men hitting on all of the college girls, can you say awkward? AND I ran into a group of people from Clemson who know Brooke! Such a small world!We woke up in Greece and immediately made our way to Corfu island and to the pink palace!
The next day we went on an atv safari around corfu...and thank goodness I grew up in the South and know how to drive a 4 wheeler.. because no offense but some of the Northerners had ZERO idea what they were doing. Not even 100 yards away from the Pink Palace a girl ran into the guardrail and had to ride the rest of the way with the guide. Then there was the girl in front of me. So I was keeping my distance because I just knew there was going to be a problem, but Kris being the crazy man that he is.. decided he was going to go around me. Ultimately it ended up in a girl driving her atv off of a cliff. Thank goodness she was smart enough to know to jump off.. don't worry, she's perfectly fine.. the ATV..not so much.
That night we all hung out at happy hour again & then had a marvelous greek dinner and then had to hop on the bus to take an overnight ferry/bus ride to Athens! Worst bus ride ever. I sat in the very front behind he bus driver who had his window open the whole night and it was probably 2 degrees outside. So sleeping for me was very minimal. We went over a bridge that looked a lot like the Cooper River Bridge in Charleston, made me miss home a little.
Once we go to Athens we went on a walking tour and saw the oldest Olympic Stadium, the Parliament, the really funny looking guards with balls on their feet, the Parthenon, Athena's temple and a bunch of other things. It's definitely not the magnificent Greece everyone thinks of, but it's still a really cool city! Everyone is unbelievably nice and the gyros are to die for. It was such a nice change eating meat instead of stinkin carbs all the time! I bought some greek sandals from a nice little man and some jewelry for some family and friends. Then we went out to this amazing dinner for 15 euro: fried cheese, breads, calamari, some other things i dont remember, and veal. DELICIOUS. Oh and I forgot to mention: unlimited wine. So much unlimited wine that out of the 140 of us one guy got so drunk he threw up on the table, passed out, hit his head on his plate which broke and food flew everywhere.. and he had to go to the hospital to get stitches.. interesting huh? Then we went to my first ever hookah bar, because that was one of the only things open at 10pm. And the Clemson people decided to play big booty in the bar? Very interesting.The next day we went to a beach in Athens and spent the day there, finally some more relaxing in the sun! The water was unfortunately freezing so I didn't go in. I met some nice friends that go to Northeastern and on the tram back to Athens we witness someone stealing an old mans bag, it was soooo sad.
Then we go to Santorini! YAY! There I saw red sand beaches, black sand beaches, cute little towns, the mamma mia house, the sisterhood of the traveling pants house, the famous windmills and unbelievable sunsets. In Oia, we met the man who owns the hotel in the windmill.. I was kind of climbin the the scaffolding.. he didn't like it very much. Unfortunately I didn't get to ride a donkey, so I'll probably be going back.
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