Holy Moley

The Greeks refuse to demolish any church. So instead of tearing this little church in Athens down they simply built over and around it

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Hello Africa, tell me how you doing?

*SIGH* as of 26 October 2009 I am back home in South Africa. Unfortunately. I had the best time ever in Greece and met the most amazing people. The men I met were Greek Gods. My family spoilt me rotten. I wish I was still in Greece. As I sort through the photos of my trip I will update this blog accordingly..... hopefully my next blog will be titled mylifeingreece!

Its a good day

Friday is the best day to have your coffee cup read, apparently if its read on a Friday then anything found in your cup will come true.

Its also said that people born on a Saturday have the power of making what they say come true... watch your step... I am Savato-yenimeni! I was born on a Saturday

You can take them out of the bush....

I joined the geriatrics of the xorio for a day trip to Kastoria. Along the way there is a little church on an island; there is a 1km (rough estimate) bridge that joins the island to the mainland, the island is uninhabited and has some interesting ruins on it. While walking to one of the ruins someone spotted a tree with bright berries, to my shock and horror they all flocked to the tree and started eating the berries! We were on an uninhabited island, they could have been poisonous! I flapped my arms about and squealed we taught in school that the more pretty/ bright anything is in nature the more poisonous it is! They ignored me and tried to find out what the berries were, how you ask? By asking the next person who came along if they knew, and without fail each next person who came along popped a berry in their mouths to investigate!! I can only flap so much so I told them they were all going to die and walked off without looking back... god helps those who help themselves!

One thing I am definitely going to miss about Greece is the public transport system in Athens. You can get anywhere you need to be in less than an hour. You really dont need your own car here



*cant think of anything funny to say about the metro... dammit I'm losing my touch!*

Lost in Translation

- Have a cookie. Its peanuts *heavy greek accent*
*a green cookie? maybe he means pistachios*
- ok, thanks *takes a bite*, *swallows hard*
- oh...... you mean its spinach

its peanuts = its speanuts = eets speenats = its spinach

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I love a man in uniform!

Nikki and I were in our hotel room in Hydra, we heard a marching band and of course had to investigate. We looked out the window and to my delight saw a whole lot of sailor boys passing right under our window. "Heeellllllooooooooooo Boys! Room 103!! Bring your friends!". We ran out the room to follow them and see what was going on. We were in the getting-ready-to-go-out phase and happened to be knickerless, we ran as fast as we could cackling all the way about how we are gonna call every Nicholas we know Knickerless! It turns out there was some or other church celebration they were involved in. Oh happy day we were on a little island filled with sailor boys, this is the life! We went out and drank to the Greek Navy!
so I was having me some steamy sailor dreams when I was woken up by the frikken marching band, at the crack of dawn!!! No no its not on at this time of the morning, people are trying to sleep!! *slams the window open and swears like a sailor* At that time of the morning you can shove your uniform up your bum! No actually you can shove your stupid little music instruments and your whole ship up your bum!