Thursday, August 11, 2016

Greece and Spain

I'm insanely behind on my blog, so I decided to make this one a photo recap!  Sarah and I took a week off work to see Athens, Santorini, and Ibiza.  Here are the pics!

Not bad.  30 Euros for 2 days worth of sightseeing in Athens!
The Acropolis
The Temple of the Olympean Zeus, smack dab in the middle of the city.  Absolutely wicked mates! (Wow, I'm becoming really English)
Our waiter kept giving us free Ouzo, which is the traditional booze of Greece.  One of us could handle drinking it, the other was Sarah.
After letting Sarah sleep off her hangover, we saw more ruins on day 2
And went to the Acropolis Museum...Did I mention it was 37 degrees Celsius (104 F)?
This bird...We took a day trip to the island of Aegina and this bird flew off the back of our boat and literally caught everything that was thrown it's way.  It was majestic, it was graceful.  It was the complete package.
You look fine, fine, fine. Put your feet up next to mine.  We will watch that water line get higher and higher.  Say, say, say ain't it been some kind of day.  You and me been catching on like a wildfire...
Santorini, all the building are blindingly white.
Such a cool shot!  All the boats bringing tourists in from the cruise ships
Since we are active people we decided to go on a 3 hour hike from Fira to Oia, which is known for having the best sunset on Santorini.  This is one of the stray dogs that joined us for the adventure!
Now that is a proper breakfast.  Didn't hurt to have an amazing view and a private hot tub....My girl picked our accommodation well!
The Sunset from our hotel room was actually more impressive than in Oia
Such a beautiful place
There are four main towns along the coast where we stayed, this is Fira at night.  One of those photos you need a DSLR to take, totally worth hauling it with me everywhere!
For our final day, we took a boat cruise out to a volcanic island.
I want a pirate ship so bad...
All the rich people with their boats in Ibiza... I'd still take a wooden pirate ship any day
Sailboats and weird kayaks with sails on them
Probably the coolest aquarium I've been to.  It's located in an actual cave that the ocean water still flows into and sunlight enters through holes in the cave roof.  
The cave does a lot of conservation to rescue sea turtles and other sea life.  
Hopefully I'll have time to actually write more than captions on the next post!  It will cover Sarah and my camping adventures to Isle of Wight and Inverness...  Did we find the Loch Ness Monster?  I guess you'll have to read the next one to find out!


Random GoPros
We need more amphitheaters in the modern world.  Life is so much better outdoors.
The GoPro has a half second delay between when you press the button and when the picture is snapped.  This is what happens when you throw the camera in the air after pressing the button.
Random church we found in Athens...
The Zappeion - Such a cool view with the fish eye lens.
I feel like this photo shows you how hot it was in Sanorini... Boiling.  The entire horizon was a haze of heat.
Red Beach.  Santorini was meant to be a romantic getaway, but it's actually packed full of tourists, bros, and rock beaches.  It was beautiful, but not quite what we expected.
It's so hard to sit in an office all day, when you know this is what's out there.
There are way too many rich people with boats...

 Sarah and Sean's Sensational Stockpile of Snappy Snaps
Did you ever believe?  Were you ever a dreamer?
We found a little restaurant in Athens that served us wine in these cool little pitchers.
She's so oblivious to my antics
Doing my best to ruin a pano
I am awesome....
I think I'm charming...
Pucker up ;)
There's a paradise waiting outside your door...
Oh men don't notice what they got.  Women think on that a lot.  They got at thousand ways to please a man, and not even one requires a plan...
In reviewing some of these photos... I feel like I should shower more often... I look like a castaway instead of someone on holiday.
She looks better in my hats than me and I HATE IT!
Fried Tomatoes :)
This girl and her panoramas....
Living the club life...
Oh I, can't get you off my mind and I think that it's alright.  Cus looking back, I'm falling in you with every single night.  You know that feeling right, where everything is fine, just fine.  I keep falling in love with you in the Summertime.....