So many activities

Wow I don’t want to leave this Kalymnos, I have been trying to figure it out and I think that Kirsty and I could live in a hotel and eat out every meal and live here for a year on less than $20,000 CAD. And I love the lifestyle, every one is so relaxed.

I guess a rundown on our trip to date is in order.

We started what seems to be months ago with flying into London. We had about 5 hours to kill between flights so we expected just to sit around the airport in wait mode, but after talking to someone we realised we could get into London town I’m a few minutes by train, so off we went. Big Bem, Westminster Abbey etc. It looks pretty much exactly like the pictures but being there was cool.

On to Athens. That is a crazy city, we stated in the historic area which I think was called the placta area. The streets were classic photo-book Europe with white wall or colourful buildings lining really narrow streets filled with the hustle of scooters and road side markets.

We arrived at our hostel quite late when the streets were dead, it was a shock to wake up in the morning to the business and to look up the street to see the Parthenon sitting on a hill so close.

We walked our feet off that day, around the Parthenon including the acropolis and all the way around the old town. I can’t really describe the feeling of being in these places, I am no historian but having seen pictures forever, actually being there and being able to look past the busloads of tourists to see how magnificent these ruins are and to imagine the majesty of how they must have been before they were destroyed is an awesome experience.

At this point i have to apologize for misspellings or poor sentence structure. I am posting this from my iPod, so 1 finger typing and a sentence is larger than a screen.

Athens is a surprising city. Everyone there seems to smoke and smoking seems to be allowed everywhere. The people talk at a million miles per hour even in English (which is very widely spoken), and everyone seems very proud to be Greek and from Athens. I really enjoyed it.

The highlight for me was walking to the top of a hill (where we were greeted by a cable car which came up the other side of the hill) and having dinner as we watched the sun go down over the city with the sea in the distance. It was a woderful end to a magical first day.

Kalymnos is next, but that deserves an entry or 2 of it’s own. It is possible this entry doesn’t make sense, I will check it when I get to a full screen sometime