After breakfast Jac & I headed in to Fira to organise ferries & our car. We have a car for our whole time in the islands & Athens but as we have learnt there is no way to get it from Paros to Mykonos. So after much rearranging we are dropping it in Santorini when we leave. They will give us another in Mykonos so we just have to organise something in Paros. With that done we picked up Tony & Paula & returned to Fira where we had a lunch of Gyro...

The sun was shining as we rose today. Yep it was going to be beautiful again. After cooking some eggs we all sat out on the deck getting some rays & taking in the view as I dangled my feet in the pool. The water was beautiful so I changed and went for my first swim in a long time. With amazing views, a warm sun shining down & submerged in cool water, I was feeling pretty good about my life. But we had to go explore so a quick shower & then we piled in...

Day number 2 on the island was a little cooler than the first as we stumbled from bed about 9am. It was a little overcast with patches of sun but it wasn't going to be a shorts day. After breakfast we made our way in to Fira, the largest town on Santorini, as we had a little business we had to sort out. It was only about a 20 minute drive so we arrived and found a parking spot. We had to head first up to Avis to finish some paperwork from yesterday. That was comp...

I didn't know they still had 3.30am in the morning but it's still there. But no matter as we were saying goodbye to the cold confines of the UK & hello to the warmth of the Greek Islands. We returned the car, boarded the plane, & before we knew it we had arrived in Santorini. We felt the warmth as we exited & passed through security to meet our hire car man. We realized we had too much luggage to fit in our original hire car so with broken English the...

Well that's it. After 102 days and 12 countries our expedition is nearly at an end. Our adventure isn't but the first part is over and we can hardly believe it. We will continue in the UK but we will never get the opportunity to travel for 3.5 months again which is a bit depressing. By the same token we are so looking forward to having a place of our own, although trying to find one is a big fat pain in the butt. Tomorrow we fly back to the UK (Manchester) and ha...