Beach n Booze n Ball n Bat

Ios.. Finally, a holiday! We deserved it by the time we got there... hehe kidding, i bet so many of you will get angry at me saying that. All I mean is, after a few months of travelling non-stop, a whole week of hedonistic activities is more of a treat than usual!
We booked in to a really good place called Far Out Village and Camping. We shared a decent triple room, and the place had the most important facilities for our week there.....several pools and several bars. There is also a beautiful beach right out the front with free umbrellas and sun lounges. We also played tennis most days and and bought a ball and bat so we could play out on the sand. There's not much to fill in your days on Ios so to break up our beach, drink, nap routine we hired a scooter and a quad bike and rode to a beach across the other side of the island. I got super crispy on the ride because the sun is so intense, but it was worth it to check out a relatively empty beach on a greek island. I had a little scooter too and found it really fun, I wish I had rented my own out! (I was on the back of T's scooter)
It's time to confess my greek island sins now.....I didn't adhere to party island rules....I only went out once!! And even then I made myself sick with drinking!! Such a bad effort I know, I was too busy catching up on sleep and reading the Twilight books! But, the other Andy really picked up the slack though and sinned in many other ways im sure!! I wont go into details in case mother Smith reads, but lets just say his average bed time was 7am in the morning! Such a good effort, kudos. Trent had a couple of good nights out too and the both stayed away from the porcelain bus unlike myself. In my defence....as weak as it may be....the drinks on Ios, more specifically the Fun Bar, are so hectically potent! One menu read.....Vodka, Midori, someorrather liquer and a dash of lemonade...they weren"t kidding. My whole glass was alcohol, and literally a dash of mixer! Hence the trouble....
The bar scene on Ios is incredible though, I was pleasantly suprised to find out that there were no big clubs charging ridiculous covers like the Belearic islands. I think Ios nightlife may be geared toward the single population although still fun for us boring couples.... but most people are there for a big night out and whatever that may lead to!
The photos pretty much tell the story of Ios I think....Beers, cocktails, beach....I dont think I have missed anything...
Although it seems there's not much to tell, it really was a fantastic week. I'd love to go back one day with a group of friends...perfect for a week hang out.
From Ios we hopped aboard another ferry back to Piraeus..this one was just a tad horrible...there are no smoking regulations in the sitting area so for 3 hours I breathed in second hand smoke which made me feel ill. Wasnt impressed. We got back to the mainland, revelled in the fresh air and jumped on a bus to Athens airport. It was a long bus ride and I was shattered by the time we got the airport, so I happily set up camp with my towel as my mattress, sarong as my sheet and bag as my pillow. I zonked out so much I didn't realise Andy had left for his flight! sorry Andy! We decided sleeping in the airport was a better option than trawling our gear around the city for 8 hours of down time...so here we stayed until check in for our flight to Thessaloniki....a large coastal town in the north of Greece...
It's from there I will pick up the next blog...enough of this one already!
Love from us, T & A!