It might be the last long summer holiday for me (done with college, going to a special school… with special holidays), so I’m trying to get the most out of it. Of course, that means going to the beach, seeing friends… but this time I’m doing in far away from home: in Greece ! 
I’ve spent a week there, between Athens, Aegina and Andros. It’s quite impressive when you left Paris with a +16C temperature to walk out of the plane and feel the 20C difference there is, plus instead of the rain showers, you don’t even bother to watch the forecasts… the sky is blue. Always blue. No clouds, CAVOK as we call that !
Staying in Athens for two days on arrival seemed to be a good idea, it’s quite enough to visit a bit, and you can’t stand the heat anymore than that. There are plenty of things to do in that city, of course starting with the Acropolis. OK, that’s where every tourist goes, but it’s really a must-do. The monuments are impressive, and even more when you remember they’re more than 2000yrs old. But it’s also the best place to get a clean view of the capital, and all the neighborhood is nice and very typical of Greece (Plaka, Agora…). Hopefully, they have good beaches near Athens, and you can’t imagine speding a day without going to one.
After that short stay, I left for the islands, starting with Aegina. this one is very close to the Piraeus harbor, and it only takes one hour of ferry boat to go. This is the Pistachio
island, and they really grow those trees everywhere. Once you left the mainland, things change a lot ! No more stress, you see the sea everywhere, they’re no crowd…
The other island I’ve been to was Andros, in the Cyclades archipelago. To make it short, the Cyclades are what the wallpapers of Greece are made of: dark blue sea, clear sky and all white houses. And to be honest, the cliché is not far from reality, the latter often being even nicer ! It takes a little more than two hours to go there by ferry, once there I rented a scooter, and here we go ! In Greece, driving is one of the most frightening experiences you can live: nobody follows any regulation, people don’t stop at stop signs or at red lights, priority is to the one with the strongest horn, and of course, you don’t wear a helmet to drive a motorbike ! But that’s so different from our ultra-repressive France it turns out to be amazing ! So, I went Greek style, shorts, raybans and no helmet. Got myself a sunburn: bad idea.
On my way around the island, I’ve seen some of the best landscapes I’ve seen in Europe, it’s clearly marvelous !
As you can expect, I took a lot of pictures there, all the great ones are in my Gallery
