Ahh... the penultimate day of part one. By this I mean: Part One - Rome and Athens Part Two - Tanzania and Zanzibar Part Three - Australia, Sinagpore, Dubai and Thailand I suppose the only purpose of me telling you that is just to make you jealous again. Anyhow, we went to the seaside today. Piraeus which is Athens harbour is only a 20 minute metro journey away. I went for a paddle in the Mediterranean - by that I mean placed my hand in and decided it was a...

Yo peeps! Having muchos fun here in Athens. It's not the most aesthetically pleasing city but it certainly has a lot of character! There are still riot police (with gas masks on and shields) wandering the streets looking rather stern! The civil unrest and tension is easy to see. There is a lot of graffiti and much of it certainly in reference to the incident that occured in Athens last year. It was also nice to see students shooting up heroin at the Polytechnik C...

Slept till midday... the joys of not having a timetable to follow! Plus it's the weekend anyway. I like to get a feel for the place I am before doing any sight-seeing so today was just spent wandering the streets of Athens. It was raining today... and I finally relented to the demands of the 'umbrella-men' and bought one for 4 euros. I'm so weak-minded! They have everything here a Scottish boy needs to survive - McDonalds, Domino's pizza, H&M, Marks & Sp...

Woo! We're in Athens! I'm amazed how easy air travel is... although I really don't understand why we didn't go through passport control in Athens. The only person who looked at my passport was the check-in lady. The airport in Athens in so new and the metro system is so clean and amazing! The tricky part of the trip came to actually finding the apartment... my only task was getting us from the metro station to it. I tried reasoning with a taxi driver, but i got...

Sigh... my last blog from Rome. I had a thoroughly enjoyable last day. A couple of things I highly recommend doing on one's last day (if any of you are thinking of coming to Rome): - sleep till midday - enjoy a continental/european breakfast - i highly recommend the espresso over here! - take a wander through the Villa Borghese or sit and read a book on one of the benchs next to the pond (my current book is "The Shadow of the Wind" by Carlos Ruiz Za...