Daniel Greece, (program of education for make benefit beautiful nation of Australia)

Day 28

GREECE | Wednesday, 4 Aug 2010 | Views [499]

The drive to Agio Vasili took about 2.5 hrs with a stop for coffee along the way. I went in Thanasi’s car and along the way we stopped at a monastery called Panageia Elena. They were in the process of doing some rennos on ... Read more >

Day 27

GREECE | Wednesday, 4 Aug 2010 | Views [336]

Today stared off the same as yesterday, breakfast then off to Boza for a swim, which again was amazing, before going back to Theo Vasili’s house for lunch. After lunch we went for a walk around the village before going to Theo ... Read more >

Day 26

GREECE | Wednesday, 4 Aug 2010 | Views [357]

I shared a room with Peter and Michael last night and I was the first one to fall asleep, Michale would have been quite happy to stay up all night chatting about my favourite guns, movies, games and what to do in case of a zombie ... Read more >

Day 25

GREECE | Wednesday, 4 Aug 2010 | Views [425]

This morning Katina and I headed out to see the Acropolis and the Acropolis museum. As soon as we got their Katina turned into an encyclopaedia on ancient Greek history and mythology, it was brilliant to learn all the things ... Read more >

Day 24

GREECE | Wednesday, 4 Aug 2010 | Views [382]

Fortunately I had packed last night because I was woken up today with the news that the Kalymnos star ferry wasn’t running so we had to get on another earlier “Ferry.” We all got taxi’s down to where you get the ferries from ... Read more >

Day 23

GREECE | Wednesday, 4 Aug 2010 | Views [383]

Officially the last day of the programme. We got to the school nice and early and started the presentations, I went second so I could get it over and done with, and I went pretty well even if I say so myself, only slipped up ... Read more >

Day 22

GREECE | Wednesday, 4 Aug 2010 | Views [310]

Today we had to get up bright and early and head to school for the final day of working on assignments so as you can imagine this will be a very interesting day to write about… NOT!!! *said in Borat voice* We got to the ... Read more >

Day 21

GREECE | Monday, 26 Jul 2010 | Views [333]

This morning we went to two places before the school. One was one of only four government run schools for kids and people with learning disabilities which was good to see, they had nicer toilets, showers and baths than our hotel, which might I add ... Read more >

Day 20

GREECE | Monday, 26 Jul 2010 | Views [297]

We started off today with a morning trip to an ancient ruined temple to Apollo which had a church built next to it in the Byzantine stage. The old temple was pretty cool, you could walk into it and have a look around, there was also a little museum ... Read more >

Day 19

GREECE | Monday, 26 Jul 2010 | Views [384]

Nothing special happened during the day today, just another boring day working on our assignments at school. After school though we went to the Kalymnos museum which was better than expected some very cool and interesting thing found in the waters ... Read more >

Day 18

GREECE | Monday, 26 Jul 2010 | Views [314]

This day marked the start of what looks like it will be a very intense week. The morning started off with George Frazis telling us all about how much work we would be doing everyday so we can get our assignments finished. Directly after this he told ... Read more >

Day 16-17

GREECE | Monday, 26 Jul 2010 | Views [335]

I’ve combined these days because they were combined for us on the trip. We started off the morning by going to a park where they were excavating some tombs, all we were allowed to see was the outside wall of the tombs. After the park we went to Bergina, ... Read more >

Day 15

GREECE | Monday, 26 Jul 2010 | Views [317]

This morning we were invited to the Council of Aridea so the mayor could give us a little speech that lasted about 3 hours after he had given us all the books and stuff that he wanted to give us. After the council we went to the bazaar in Aridea where ... Read more >

Day 14

GREECE | Monday, 26 Jul 2010 | Views [376]

The plan today was to head to Dion archaeological park and then to the Dion museum. This offcourse meant a two hour bus ride to begin with which is always fun. The bus ride was definitely worth it is this case. The park was amazing, lot of ruined ... Read more >

Day 13

GREECE | Monday, 26 Jul 2010 | Views [462]

Today started off pretty much the same as yesterday except that the breakfast was different bthan yesterdays (something that we didn’t get to experience at villa themillina in Kalymnos.) We got on the bus and started the 2.5 hr journey to Thessaloniki.... Read more >

Day 12

GREECE | Monday, 26 Jul 2010 | Views [381]

This is actually a pretty awesome hotel. Breakfasts are a lot better than those at villa themillina in Kalymnos, showers, taps and toilets work (still can’t flush the toilet paper though.) We had breakfast at the hotel and then all piled onto the bus ... Read more >