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| Acropolis in Athens |
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| Villa Manos (Santorini) |
Well the second travel week was here before we knew it. Time this semester has literally flew by. Weeks go by like days and the second travel week meant off to Greece for 10 days of travel. The original plan went a little something like this: bus to train station, train to airport, fly to Rome (stay in the airport for 6 hrs), fly to Athens stay there for 2 nights, ferry to Santorini (8 hour ferry ride), stay there for 3 nights, ferry to Mykonos (2 hours—high speed ferry!), ferry back to Athens (5 hours), stay in Athens one night, fly to Rome, train to Florence, stay one night in Florence, train back to Bassano del Grappa, cab back to Paderno aka PDG aka home…..sounds like a lot of traveling right? Imagine actually doing all that. Kenzie and I spend the first night in the Rome airport. Let me make a suggestion: never, I repeat never spend the night in the airport. I have never seen a place so deserted. The only other form of life I saw for 6 hours besides the one janitor mopping the floor was the flies that prevented us from getting any more than five minutes of sleep to say the least. First night of travel break: quite memorable. The next morning, with no sleep, we boarded our flight to Greece. 2 hours later we arrived in the ancient city. Lots of graffiti, great food, the NICEST people, and festive music is what Greece had to offer. One of our waiters put what took Kenzie and I the entire semester to learn: life is about happiness: a cappuccino, sunshine and time with the people you love. Brilliant man. After tourin’ around the city which involved seeing the market, the acropolis, and the Olympic stadium, we gathered our bags (still packed-living out of one suitcase for a week is far from ideal) and boarded our ferry to Santorini.
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| Santorini |
6 h o u r s l a t e r, rockin and rollin on the seas, our ipods were long dead so I drew a picture for entertainment and after countless naps we arrived in the beautiful and well known island of Santorini. The view from where the boat docked was absolutely insane, our first picture of this island was indescribable to say the least, we knew it was going to be a good few days. We were greeted by the cutest couple ever, Poppy and her husband, who could not have been more friendly and helpful during our stay. Villa Manos was the name of their family run resort and located close to the near town of Fira, where we would ATV to go enjoy some authentic Greek food. Once Annie, Ally and the boys arrived, we all ATVed around looking like a biker gang. These four wheelers were an awesome way to see the island and explore. We rode them to the black sand beaches, town of Thira on the top of this ridiculously steep mountain where it was extremely windy (videos to come), and to the town of Pygros (white buildings with blue dome roofs). Unfortunately our ferry to Mykonos was cancelled because of the wind so we rode back to Athens on another ferry (5 hours) with Luke’s brother Wes and friend Jordan from Chicago. These two were a ton of fun (picture dumb and dumber). The next day in Athens, the four of us jammed to house music, which is still stuck in my head till this day, “did it live” in the fratties words and then barely made our flight back to Rome (fist pumping the whole way there). Took a little detour on the way home to Florence to visit the one and only boss man himself Tyler. Spent the night with the Captain and his crew eating a delicious meal, meeting a bunch of unique friends, and “keeping calm and carrying on” direct quotes (others include: was it something we said? If you’re jealous you can join? No flowers please, I already have my hands full).
Two word things to remember from this travel break:
Overnight airport
Ferry ride
Eye Bracelets
Missing tooth
Villa Mercedes
Intercontinental Hotel
Euro Shakes
Josh’s “Job”
Train Home
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