Greece
Friday, June 9th, 2006
gyros are the greatest food substance known to man. and the greatest off all gyros are found on Santorini island. the owner is a dude named Lucky and he is the shit. he was throwing back tequila shots and hooking us up with free beers, and more tequila shots, as well as a free t-shirt ‘for your beautiful sister’.
santorini is a volcanic island, the actual place is built onto the crater edge of the volcano that sticks up out of the ocean. brilliant views overlooking the volcano. it has black and red sand beaches, the colors come from the volcanic rock.
next was Ios, party island. unfortunatly it was packed with alot of canadians and americans, which is usually not a problem unless they are on the spring break vibe and it appears to be their first time drinking. chants of ‘America! FUCK YA!’ were enough to make me flee the island..
to Naxos. which was amazing. beautiful beaches and town. caught a piano recital from some amazing Russian guy who played on top of the Venetian museum at night overlooking the ships in the port. the building was created by the Venetian Crusaders about 800 years ago and was partially constructed with marble take from the Acropolis. at intermission some greek guy brought out Greek wine, red and white, and a tray full of different greek liquers. I immediatly befriended him to which he replied by letting me know that it would make him happy if i sampled everything on the table…. ‘dont mind if i do..’
also got to ride some horses through the farms and gallop them on the beach..
giddy-up.
J