Greek Islands

After 3 trains, 2 flights and a car ride we finally arrived to Santorini, one of the most popular greek islands.
The flight from athens to santorini was an experience.. We make it out to the tarmac and are directed towards a plane, we figured our plane must be the big one behind the small one that sat in front of us.. but no no we were going by the small plane. It sat about 40 people and was the smallest plane I have ever been on.
Once we were seated the air hostess walked down the isle handing out what we thought were lollies... we came to learn they were actually travel sickness lollies...eeeep!! Thankfully the flight was fine, Ive definitely been on worse flights flying with jetstar or easyjet. Once we landed the pilot came out and SHE was the hottest thing I have ever seen.. practically a barbie.

We stayed down at Perissa Beach, more known as the black beach (the sand is literally black). Our accomodation was.... less than average I must say. The owner fancied himself an artist... a con artist more like it if he was trying to pass his work off as art!!

We had decided to spend 5 nights in Santorini and it was well worth it. We spent our days fanging around on our quad bikes, hanging out at the beach, swimming and eating gyros.
We spent a night up at Fira, the main town of Santorini, where there are hundreds of the amazing white houses with blue roofs on the cliffs overlooking the ocean. The sunsets are absolutely amazing and is one thing I love seeing is a sunset over the ocean.

After 5 nights in paradise we headed to Paros. It is probably my favourite of the islands we went to. The stunning landscape of the beaches mixed with the baron centres and dry land is absolutely amazing.
Our 3 nights here were spent generally doing the same thing... riding around on quads, hanging at the beach and working on my growing tan. I definitely could get used to this kind of life!

Our last islands, Mykonos was definitely really fun! We stayed in Gilos Platus a few beaches around from Paradise, the well known party area. The place we stayed was AMAZING complete with an awesome pool and pool bar overlooking the hills of Mykonos.
Our first night mitch took claire and I on a mission walk around to paradise beach, we didnt quite make it as we couldnt work out which beach was actually paradise beach at that stage, but we stopped at an awesome bar for some cocktails and was so worth the rocky trek to get there.
we spent our days doing the usual, beach, pool, eating, working on tans. nothing out of the usual!
Our second night we were going to head into the port area for dinner and a quick look around, on our way we had to pass by the pool bar and met our new friend Adam, an aussie living in london (something unusual) and invited him to dinner as he as all alone until his friends arrived. We are such nice people haha. Lucky we did because we all became really good friends and was good to talk to some other people.. something I miss about not staying in hostels. After an amazing dinner, we practically had to be rolled to the bus to get us back to our place. Something about greek food makes me want to keep eating and eating!

Claire left us the next day so she could head back to turkey, but Mitch and I stayed on for another night. Our last afternoon we met some more people around the pool.. a group of amercians travelling together. They are such amazing people and again so glad we could meet them. I love meeting so many people!
Now with our big group, we headed out for our last night in Mykonos to see it out with a bang! we trekked again to Paradise beach, having some cocktails on the way. It was such a fun night hanging out with everyone! we finally got to bed about 3am and sadly the next day we had to leave the amazing greek islands and head back to dreary london. So depressing!

I absolutely loved the greek islands, I would probably go back again but do the greek sailing to see a bit more! the lifestyle of staying on the greek islands is amazing.. swimming, quad biking, eating gyros... I mean really who wouldnt love it???