First we flew into Athens and spent a day there. Athens is not one of my favorite places. There were a few cool things to see there, but it was really dirty and very hot. We only spent a day there, which I was fine with.
We went to two different islands in Greece. The first one was Paros. Paros is know for the beaches, and that is pretty much all you will do there. We spent two days on the beach. The first day we went to a beach that was surrounded by rocks. We had to wade through the water to get the one of the beaches. I actually slipped on the rocks and fell in. The water was so clear in Paros. This is also were I spent my birthday. Jennie and I went out for a few drinks that night to celebrate. On the last day we were in Paros we visited this cool church and did some shopping.
The next island we went to was Santorini, and this is my favorite place in Europe. There is so much to do and see on this island, I feel like I need to go back. The first night we got there I had a delicious seafood dinner and then we went out. Jennie wanted to be home by 2pm, but we didn't make it back to our place till 4pm. While out we met a few Americans and many other foreign people. We had a great time. We took the bus back to our hotel and luckily it was only 2 euro, because that is all we had left on us.
It was such a fun night, but we were hurting the next day. I really wanted to go on the volcano and to the hot springs, but I was not quite up to it. So, we spent the day by the pool. We stayed in a really nice hotel, so the pool was really cool. That night we had another delicious dinner and walked around the boardwalk.
The next morning I was up early to go scuba diving. I did two different dives. One was a wall dive off of White Island and the other was more of a cave dive. They both were really cool, but I saw a seal at the second dive. That was really great. I tried to get a picture of it, but I don't know if it turned out. As soon as I develop the film, I will let you know.
That evening we went into the town of Oia where we had dinner on top of a building and watched the beautiful sunset. This town is so cool. It has buildings off the side of a cliff with an amazing view of the volcano. I suggest going to Santorini if ever in Greece, or even close to Greece.
The final day was a travel day. We were supposed to catch a ferry from Santorini all the way to Athens. Well after waiting an hour for our ferry I decided to ask someone about it and I was told they canceled the trip. I panicked a little considering we were suppose to catch a flight out of Athens back to Berlin. But after waiting in a long line, I was pleasantly surprised they booked us on a flight out of Santorini to Athens. All we had to do was hang out in Santorini for the day, which was fine by me.
All in all the trip was great. Below are some pictures, most of them are on facebook too.
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