On Curtis' last day in Greece we went to a teeny island called Antiparos which was just a five minute boat ride from Paros. I much prefer it to Paros as the sand was softer, lighter and the water was perfect with no weeds or rocks or ugly little sea creatures. One could walk a mile without the water level rising about one's head. Very nice!
We then celebrated with a 1.5 litre bottle of 5 euro wine (which was quite obviously bad) cigars (which were surprisingly pleasant) and Gyros (always good). Gyros (pronounced like the dollar: euro) are similar to donairs, but they put on tzatziki sauce (ugh) instead of sweet sauce and they put french fries in 'em. Very yummy!
So now I'm all by my lonesome. Actually feels wonderful to travel on my own again. Even though it will only be for a couple of weeks, it's nice to only have to rely on myself and do whatever I want.
I just left the island of Ios, the place where dad's cousin, Bruce, met his Australian wife, Lisa! There is a shocking amount of Australians here, and if the English speaking people aren't Australian, they're Canadian. Ios also appears to more popular for young people, as in 90% of tourists seem to be under 30.
I am now in Santorini and it is as beautiful as they (everyone) says it is! Tomorrow I am going to check out some volcano stuff and beaches, so I will tell more later.
For now, I figure that I've been in this country for over 3 weeks now so I'm entitled to reveal my observations, which are as follows:
1.) I've so far only encountered ONE mounted wall shower. There are showers to be sure, but you have to hold them the whole time or mount them by the tap. None hanging above in a convenient location. Odd.
2.) Greek plumbers made a dubious error back in the day when they went about deciding the size of pipes to be used nationwide. They are too small, you can't even flush anything down the toilet. Seriously.
3.) Time change. I don't mean the geographical time change, but the fact that Greeks run on a completely different time frame than us. The busiest time of day seems to be midnight. Most people don't even venture out for dinner until about 10:30 pm! I'm assuming this is because of the tremendous heat during the morning and afternoon, but I'll have to come back in the winter to confirm!
4.) Don't even get my started on the driving. I don't get it. There are no traffic rules or guidelines. Haha and when I think there is no where left on a street for a car to park.. they'll find a place to park. Also, if math is correct, and it probably isn't, then they pay almost $2 a litre for gas here.
Anyways, it's lovely and beautiful and I want to live here. Take care
