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.....

Scandinavia

Even though I'm known as being the class clown

My coworkers decided I deserved a night on the town!
The reason I won an award doesn't take much thought
It's obviously because I'm so freaking hot!!!

I thought, "Oh which restaurant shall Sarah and I go?"
"Wait, why eat in London when we can dine in Oslo!"
Oh, it's so beautiful how this poetry doth flow

Since our weekend visit was going to be short
I asked Sarah to locate the most central airport
But it turns out you should never give a woman a map
Because her sense of direction may be a bit crap
And if you point that out, you'll receive a slap!
Yeah, keep your thoughts in boys, shut yer trap!

However I didn't have much time to gloat
For the story of me fucking up had already been wrote
Turns out when I booked a room with a bed type of bunk
Revealing my chances of getting laid had now sunk
Damn you universe, I didn't even book it drunk
Did I book us into a hotel or a hostel?
Errrrr, let's just call it a poshtel....

When trying to pick the airport nearest to the city stay, my woman picked TORP, the airport furthest away...  There is never a dull day, when you have a good woman to lead you astray :)

After sleeping off a beautiful seafood dinner
Sarah said, "Hey porker, it's time to get thinner"
She sure knows how to make me feel like a winner
So even though crushing my ego is her sport
I happily joined her for a run to the nearby fort
Do I exaggerate her being mean to make you all pity me
Well it's my blog, the story is whatever I want it to be!

After eating breakfast, we visited the Nobel Museum of Peace
Which is ironically filled with videos of soldiers firing piece after piece
Outside the building was a festival of the world
And on stage the dancers skirts swirled and twirled
But baby, when I hear that music, my booty can't stop shakin'
Cus you know I'm about to go Footloose like Kevin Bacon
Yeah, I know that mental image isn't fair
But my rhyming took me there

Ahh yet another nation, in which we get to vacation

The Oslo Opera House at 10 at night.  One can only revel in delight, that there is no more winter blight, and the sky is free to stay bright.

After our wanders, we hopped on a bus
Because it was on to Gothenburg, Sweden for us!
An Opera of Hamlet was playing that night
A story full of peril, death, and delight
Oh Ophelia, shall you die here tonight?

As the curtain closed on the Opera's final scene
We decided to eat some traditional Swedish cuisine
Ok, so maybe it was a Mexican restaurant
Oh, damn you tacos, you always do taunt
I've eaten round the world, and you're still all I want

That evening my girl booked us into our first air bnb
A definite upgrade to the bunkbed from me
Sarah awoke me, stating, "Hey fatty, time for run number two!"
The words so deflating, to not cry was all I could do
So instead of exclaiming, "Beg your pardon?!?!"
I joined her for a run to a botanical garden
Besides the people of Sweden needed to see me run
For the beauty of my hair bouncing outshines the sun!

There's no reason to pout, if this is the destination of your morning workout.

Who can believe in Winter's gloom when Spring arrives and flowers bloom?

After running, we went to a second botanical park

Since the sky was no longer ominous and dark
As the sun came out, we found a spot, nice and shady
So I could enjoy a picnic with my wonderful lady
The seconds turned to minutes, and the minutes to hours
As we wandered through all of the beautiful flowers

We finished our day with some fluffy ice cream

It's a glorious life, when you are living the dream
But after a dream, you must come awake
For we had a flight back to London to take
If only our ties to responsibility could sever
We could keep on traveling this world forever!

It is every vagabond's duty, to share this world's beauty...

It's as simple as something that everyone knows, that her beauty will follow wherever she goes.  Up the hill in the back of the house in the wood, she'd love me forever I know, she could..

I just want to be ok, be ok, be ok.  I just want to be ok today. I just want to feel the day, feel the day, feel the day.  I just want to feel something today.  I just want to the know the day, know the day, know the day. I just want to know something today. I just want to know the day, know the day, know the day.  Know that I will be ok.

My hopes are higher than this waterfall, though I try to resist I still want it all.  I see swimming pools and living rooms and  aeroplanes.  I see a little house on the hill with bright window panes. I see quiet nights poured over ice while we're in Spain...

Since our adventures never seem to cease
Our next planned trip will take us to Greece
I can't wait to get to the island of Santorini
So I can see my woman sport a bikini
...And lay on the beach with an appletini!
Sometimes wishes come true even without a genie!
Whooo, poem blog over.  J'ai terminé



Random GoPros

Lads - this is where they let the Navy in, so dock here to find a girl that's Scandinavian!

With enough balloons we can fly, so take my hand and we can try.  Just you and I, let's claim the sky.

Feeling like a hero, but I can't fly. You know you never crash if you don't try.  Took it to the edge, now I know why.  You're never gonna live if you too scared to die...

What if, what if we runaway? What if, what if we left today? What if we said goodbye to safe and sound. What if, what if we're hard to find.  What if, what if we lost our minds?  Because when the lights go poof and the stars explode, we will be fireproof...

It's definitely not lame, that these flowers are shaped like a flame.  Yeah, I'm in the poetry game.

 Sarah and Sean's Sensational Stockpile of Snappy Snaps

Would you believe it?  Those sapphire eyes.  The brilliant girl with whom time flies.  Then the camera clicks and we are stars, we're laughing in the back of chauffeured cars.  Phone call rings and your voice is desire, as Winter moves into Summer fires.  I promised you what's ours is ours and one of these trips I'll take you Mars...

Oh the man with the hair so fair, the hair so fair you can't compare.  Oh the hair, the beautiful hair, one could only stop and stare. It isn't fair, I've lost my hair, there isn't any left to share.  Who would dare to cut this hair, this beautiful hair I no longer wear... :'(

Don't you worry there my honey, we might not have any money.  But maybe I think you're cute and funny.  Maybe I want to do what bunnies do with you, with you, with you...

Let's get rich and buy our parents homes in the south of France.  Let's get rich and give everybody nice sweaters and teach them how to dance.  Let's get rich and build a house on a mountain, making everybody look like ants... From way up high, you and I, oh you and I...

The way she tells me I'm hers and she's mine.  Even if it's through a backhand it's just fine.  Her love is rare and sweet as cherry wine... Oh it's divine, that I get to call her mine.

My dear there's no need to fuss, things are clearly great between us

No need to count sheep, put her on a bus and she's fast asleep

I'm so perplexed, as to why she looks so vexed.

For all the things my eyes could view, the best by far is you :)