Travel Log: Off to Santorini, Greece. Our Petit Palace hotel

Took a couple of days off to Santorini. Lovely islands. It was kinda rainy when we were there and so we didnt get much good sunset views. Still, lovely views are lovely views and rain dint put a damper to the good spirits.

We took a local plane to the island instead of the ferry because of the strike going on and I didnt want to risk ruining my hols because someone else decided to protest for a lost cause...

The aerial view was really pretty and got me really excited. We flew across all the various islands and being a nature lover, I thought it was a magnificent view with the various shapes and fluffy white clouds and deep blue sea.

We stayed at Petit Palace which had a beautiful seafront view. I can understand why this is a "romantic getaway" for the honeymooners but it's not my kind of honeymoon. Unless one wants to fk like rabbits for days, it can get pretty boring with nothing but expansive ocean before u. Sure you can do island hopping but I dont think they differ much.

Our hotel view and the chilly pool

Our room. Our private balcony

View from room

The freaking long flight of stairs up and down to our rooms. There are no pots or kettles in the room so everytime we wanted tea, someone has to walk down to serve us. Kinda wasting human resources I will say...

Our sunning deck chair and balcony space

I would love to have breakfast here but it was pissing every morning so this was the only sunny  afternoon shot

I actually did swim in this cold pool. I just needed something to kick start my day...

Our very unique looking neighboring hotel with a chapel for marrying couples.

The room was nice and spacious. Love the bathroom. Wished the room wasnt so sandy and dusty though, regardless how many times I wipe it.

The rather spacious bathroom

Lovely bedroom with a useless decorative strings "blind" which neither kept the dust nor light out

Living room area

My good old friend -The Santorini Tomato ball

Our welcoming sweet wine

Seriously hotel people, 2.50euro for a can of coke? Might as well go rob a bank while you are at it.

Despite all the minor gripes, that said, I did enjoy myself and the food here in Santorini island is surprisingly many folds better than mainland, at least comparing to Athens. I love the Tomato balls. They had a few minor variations but at the end of the day, they all tasted yummilicious. Couldnt pass up on one.

Travel Log: Admiring the sights in Athens, Part 1

Abit belated but just realised that I hadnt posted my Greece leg of my previous trip yet.

Athen apart from her historical rich cultural artifact grounds, really isnt a fantastic place. Lots of "over pricing" in euro and service wasnt up to par. Then again no offense, western countries are not really known for the sort of service Asians are used to in our part of the globe.

Generally, I did enjoy my historical day trip in Athen, visiting and taking in all the sights and history. Considering that I had always wanted to visit this place but never got the chance to previously. Many years ago when I was still back in secondary school, there was this European Art History trip that was offered to the class and I was the only one out of 30 students who couldnt go because the fking "father figure" of mine was too busy saving his spare cash for the whore & bastard kids he was keeping on the side and told me he had none to spare for my educational trip. So no thanks to the old bastard, with soil and sand firmly stuck to the bottom of my hiking boots, I am pleased to be finally here.

The crown is expectantly large, with huge amount from the bloody loud noisy annoying China crowd who has no concept of civil manners such as wait in line or talk audibly but not offensively loud. These China people are everywhere, really cannot stop seeing them and the worst, is that westerners cannot tell us apart. So that means if one China dick head pisses some local off, the rest of us bears the brunt of the ill treatment towards "Chinese" race.

That aside, there are plenty of western wankers too, who simply lost their ability to read English signs that says "DO NOT CLIMB" or "NO STANDING ALLOWED ON WALLS". So every few minutes, you will hear loud piercing whistling from the security and harsh yelling, trying to stop these idiots from falling to their death just for the sake of a moronic "unique" photo. Honestly, if they are too stupid to behave decently, the world might be better off without them esp the repeat offenders.

Life thrives in the midst of dust and stones.

Cherry coke

Saw this in Supermart.
Wondering how does Cherry Coke taste like...will it taste like medicine?