Before I talk about Santorini, something fantastically random happened during our last morning in Ios I must share. At 7am I was roused from my slumber by some noise, turning to my roommate Arryn only to see a random young guy with his pants pulled down sitting on Arryn's bed. Arryn looked equally confused, so I asked him who he was. It took a while to get a proper answer out of him as he was drunk and/or foreign, and by that time the exchange was getting quite h...

I  Ios. Of all the places in the world I have been to so far, Ios is my favorite by a substantial margin. It's like Mykonos is many ways - the same bright white houses with blue roofs and windows, the same crystal clear ocean water and undrinkable tap water, the same dirt-cheap Gyros meals - but it's got a much more laid back feel, and is about half the price. Mykonos knows it's cool, Ios hasn't found out yet. Our hostel, despite being up a 50 metre hill at ...

We arrived in Mykonos via a 5 hour ferry which was expensive but very comfortable. I am fast learning to stop buying blended iced coffee drinks in Greece, my 'frozito' was disgusting, and the 'instant frappe' I bought on the ferry tasted like Oprah's underarms. Backtracking a second, Gavin was pickpocketed on the train in Athens, losing his IPhone, which sucks. His iPhone will not be lost in vain though, the rest of us vowing to learn from his mistake and protec...

After our all nighter in Eilat, and a bumpy late night bus to the airport (where we met a Belgian who claimed to know Australia like her bucket. She must throw up a lot or something to know a bucket well..) we were all extremely sleep deprived. I rolled out my sleeping bag in the middle of Ben Gurion airport and caught a good 45 minutes of shuteye before the flight to Athens. Many months ago, when booking the flight, we each selected a weird meal option - Muslim...