Paros 24th & 25th June Matt and Jodie must've felt pity for us because they changed their plans to take a later ferry to Mykonos so we got to spend most of the day with them. Making sure we didn't waste the day we were up by 10 and met up with them just down the road. Luckily they'd had a couple of days there before us and knew all the cheap spots, so we grabbed breakfast at a bakery and sat at the beach and ate our feta pies. Yum. With a lot of catc...

Athens 21st - 23rd June We started our Athens experience with the s***tiest of s***ty breakfasts at our s***ty hotel. We have stayed in some very ordinary places, but this one almost takes the prize as being the worst. The toilet was pretty much in the base of the shower, we had an ants nest where the wall once was - which meant lots of ants in the bed - and no curtains. It was not pleasant. Anyway, we made our way up towards the main attraction in Athens, ...

Istanbul - End of tour 19th & 20th June Our wake up call was atsupposed to be at 5am, to give everyone time to have breakfast, get organised and be on the bus ready to go at 6am. After only making it to bed around 2, I knew that it was going to be difficult. When our alarm went off at 5am I got out of bed (Still a lot drunk) managed a shower, but for some reason I went back to bed. We were woken at 3 minutes to six when the maid came into our room to ch...

Cappadocia 17th & 18th June 2010 Today was the day none of us were really looking forward to. A 12-hour bus journey into central Turkey, the region of Cappadocia. It was another early morning and lots of movies on the bus, as well as lots of stops with lunch at a big shopping centre so we finally had a bit of choice as to what we were going to eat for lunch. Dan and I chose a yummy Turkish pizza. It was a 'point at the non English menu and hope for the ...

Ephesus & Pamukkale 16th June 2010 The morning was off again bright and early, and the first stop for the day was at the ancient city of Ephesus (I was getting pretty sick and tired of ancient cities - after a while they just look like piles of marble), but this one was really impressive. Busloads were arriving, and we were there fairly early, but we had to push and shove our way through lots of them. We were especially jealous of the group that had mat...