More Greek Islands

Well another Contiki tour under the belt and its time to chill out for a while!! I'm in Athens at the moment for 1 last night before we head off to Rio!!! Very exciting cos it means there's a surf coming! Man am I hanging to get in the water.. The rest of our contiki round the greek islands was very cool, we had a wicked tour group and some great times..

I'm gonna post some pics on the last 2 posts so you can all see how much of a great time I've been having!

From my last post, we chilled out at Mykanos for 2 more nights and had beach parties. The pic here is the beach at where we stayed, right near aphrodites boobies, 2 hills that look like boobs and are said to be aphrodite's in greek mythology.

We also went to a place called paradise beach which was a pretty wild party. Pretty cool when you're ordering drinks at a bar and the floor is sand! They served drinks there called devils tongues, which were extremely strong cocktails that mad your tonguego bright green. After a few of them, everyone wants to dance so they all get up on a massive wooden table that they have right next to the bar. The aim is to try to break the table by getting as many people as you can to dance/jump on the table. They give out free shots to anyone up there and it's pretty wild! No one has ever broken it cos its so strong but we sure tried :)

From Mykanos, we headed to Santorini, another greek island and thankfully it wasn't as windy! We caught a ferry called the flying cat 4 which was a small high speed ferry that was very very rocky! It felt like it was going to tip over a few times and was so bad we had to slow down to a crawl for a while cos it was so windy and choppy leaving Mykanos. Not the best for the sea sick ones but I was sweet :)

We got there in one piece and headed out for dinner at a wicked place in town with great views of the Island. The great thing about Santorini is that because it is so hilly, you are always hundreds of meters above the coast, giving you great view day and night, just about everywhere you go.

We hired quad bikes the next day and had them for the entire time we were in Santorini, which made it so easy to get around and see the whole island. They were only 50cc but man did we get the most out of them!! Haha, if you can imagine a convoy of 7 guys heading round the Island, tearing up gravel and sand, where ever we could :)

We went to the red sand beach, 2 different black sand beaches and a couple of white sand beaches. The island was great and had a great night life as well.

On the last day we caught a cable car down to the port and rode a donkey back up! It was pretty cool cos as soon as you hopped on , the donkey knew what to do and started clibing the hill without a giude or anything. Hotels there also use them to get bags up to the top of the cliff from the port, as it is so steep that you cannot get a car down there.

We had dinner at yet another amazing restaraunt whit a great view and then headed out to another 4 clubs for drinks with the crew. I had a few quiet nights on santorini to recover from the trip before this tour, which I def needed! I'm feeling fully charged again now though and ready for the rest of my trip..

Almost forgot to mention, Santorini boasts to have the worlds best sunset at the north of the Island, at a place called Oia. Oia is the third most expensive area to buy land in the world, behind Monacco and Venice, with a square meter of land costing about 5000 euro. We had to check this out and it was pretty nice. It was a little hazey the day we were there but still great. There's a pic here so see what you think. We had a jam on top of the castle thats there and enjoyed some local santorini wine with dinner.

From Santorini, we went to the island of Ios which was easily my favourite :)

The place we stayed at had a pool with the best view I've ever seen, It was on a balcony on the side of a cliff and looked out over far out beach. There was a bar at the pool and the guy working there was a legend. We got on great with Matty from Sweden and before long we were behind the bar pouring our own drinks and making all sorts of crazy cocktails. Needless to say we had some massive pool parties and some great times there. Matty had 2 more days of work to go and he had always wanted to do a backflip from the roof above the bar into the pool. I told him I could do it and I'd give him a few pointers so after a few drinks one night he decided tonight was the night and he went for it. He was so stoked that he'd done it that he opened a 200 euro bottle of champagne and after spraying about half of it over everyone, started pouring drinks for all and it was another great night!

Def a party island and a lot of fun, as well as great beaches and warm weather and water.

From Ios, we headed back to Athens for the end of the tour and here I am now. We met some great crew on this tour and had a lot of fun. As well as partying, we had a chance to relax in great hotels and on great beaches, before heading to south america for the next chapter of our trip. This trip has got a long way to go but already we've seen so much of the world, been to so many places that are world famous to visit in your lifetime, and met so many cool people. I miss all the crew back home but it's def worth doing this trip and we're having a great time.

I hope everyone is well back home and I'll write again soon from the next leg of my journey :)