What a great day and night we had. Today we still had our quad bikes so we rode to a beach an hour away. The road to the beach is long with lots of hills and bends. The roads are deserted and it looks like and feels like you are in the middle of nowhere. There is rocks and dirt on either side and small shrubs, there is also lots of mountain goats everywhere. They stand in the most awkward positions on rocks and walk along the roads. On the way to the beach Lauren...

Today I slept in till 11:30am then went and sunbaked by the pool at out hotel till Clint and Lauzi woke up. We then went and had breakfast together at a little cafe, muesli and cold milk... It was really nice and cheap. Everything is cheap here, finally we have gotten to the cheaper countries. We had breakfast at 3pm, the breakfast menus go till 4pm here as everyone is nocturnal, it is similar to Ibiza. We then walked down into town and hired quad bikes. We drove...

Today we arrived in Ios at 10:30am. We got a free shuttle bus up to our hotel and hung around at the bar till our room was ready. Once we got to our room we sorted our washing and took it down to the laundry mat. We did 4 loads of washing, we were starting to get pretty desperate for clothes before this wash. We then went to the local beach for the afternoon. The beach was packed with young people. There were water sports to play, tubing behind boats and pool bar...

Still a day in transition to Athens. It was a 17 hour ferry ride to Patras. The ferry left at 12pm Sunday and we arrived in Patras at 6am Monday morning. We then had an hour long walk to the bus depot, followed by a two and a half hour coach ride to Athens then a 20 minute local bus to the main square and then a 15 minute walk to our hotel. It has been a very long tiring journey to Athens. We started 6am Saturday morning and arrived at Athens 11:30am Monday morni...