Frankfurt...for a bit

Well,
It is back on the travelling road for me. May and I left Greece after 10 days of awesome times. Between teaching May how to drive a moped, endless tzatizki dippings, lots of gyros, cooking for ourselves in our little kitchen consisting of one frying pan, a pot and a strainer, playing on the beach and beautiful sunsets in Oia, we had a blast. Oh yeah, we had a heck of a tournament of Speed...I know, I know, we could have played different games but we had a blast, playing everyday and yes, that pino beat me. I have been stressing over different strategies for days now..

I left May in Athens on Friday afternoon, 6 hour train ride to Patra, hour break to call home, catch some dinner, then a 30 hour ferrz ride back to Venice. Arrived early Sunday morning, caught a train within the hour to Milano, slept all 4 hours. Within 20 minutes of arriving was on board towards Basel. 6 hours later, caught another train to Frankfurt within 15 minutes and finally arrived around 10 pm last night. It was the longest bit of traveling for me and quite the change from May and mine easy living that took place in Santorini. But 50 hours later, accross 4 countries, I made it to Jimmy's place. He is a friend of Matt's, my older brother, and has been here for about 6 years. He gave a nice bed (complete with spider man blanket, spider man pillow slip, spider man posters...all compliments of his 5 year old son Nolan, who also happened to leave a pair of Snoopy boxers in the bed too..), the internet right now that I am using
, and his bike that I plan to use over the next two days to tour around in. Should be good times with him before I am off to the Philippines for 2 and a half weeks on Wednesday. But I do make it back here for a few days to start off my world cup tour.

Just wanted to say hi to everyone, this guy is still safe and sound in Germany now. Take care all
Adam

Greece

Well
May and I have parted ways with Pam and have ventured down to Greece. Pam heads home today from Venice and spent the last 6 days in Cinqueterra after May and I left. Lots of 20 question games and good times traveling with MAy's friend with lots of good experiences. After spending 10 days in Italy with Pam, a few in Rome, a few in Tuscany (which were all quite rain-filled but since we have had beautiful weather up until this point, can't really complain), and the last 3 days in Cinqueterra (highly recommend to those who are thinking of traveling around Italy in the future), we spent a day in Venice, which was also very unique. Italy was great, super kind people and really good food. We had excellent gelati (ice cream..) every day, thanks to May and her urges, and super cheap pizzas and pastas. And great mussels in Cinqueterra (Monterosso more specifically) which we haven't found an equivalent of yet.

A 30 hour ferry ride later, we arrived in Patras, spent the night and then ventured to Athens. We decided to go right down into the Cyclades, Santorini more specifically, and have been here for 2 nights already. We plan to stay here until next Monday and really just relax and hang out. We have our own studio/room, with a little balcony area for meals (we've eaten breakfast out there the last 2 mornings) and a kitchen in which we successfully made a little spaghetti meal out of last night. Nice to finally make our own meal instead of always eating out. Great food all over but it is nice to have a settling down feel. We're off on a little tour today to the hot springs, volcano and another island. Should be fun. We rented bikes for the week and that should be our transportation and we plan on renting a moped for a day or two eventually.

Next week we're up to Oia, another village on a cliff though, as oppose to Perissa which is all beach front. We really beat the rush as there are only a few tourists here and there and I imagine by the end of the month, this place will be crawling with people for the rest of summer. Good thing we're here while we are!

I guess that is all for now. Just relaxing and enjoying the time as we are off to the Philippines on the 25th of this month (we part ways on the 19th as I fly out of Frankfurt and May, London).
Take care
AT