We've been busy!

Sorry we have been incommunicado! We are in Santorini at the moment and will be headed to Corinth on the 21st. David's 22nd birthday is on the 22nd of Sept. so hopefully we can stick to our budget well so we can celebrate. Our $80/day budget doesn't get us very far when all of a sudden it is only 57 Euros! The dollar is worthless here!

Anyways, we left Nazareth, Israel earlier then planned b/c the Jewish New Year started, all public transport stopped and all businesses in most of Israel closed. Not a good time to travel. We were able to see Tiberias and the Sea of Galilee for 2 hours but that was all we saw in the north.

We decided to spend our 2 days in Tel Aviv where the beaches are amazing.

On the 15th we flew into Athens and found our hostel very easily. We went to the Acropolis first thing and saw all the historic ruins around it. We got a three day ticket to see all the archaeological sites. Good thing because the 16th was election day and everything was closed! We bought an all day metro/subway/train ticket and that was our entertainment for the day. We just explored. At about 5pm we went to Syndagma Square infront of the Parliament building where news cameras and stages were set up. We hung out there waiting for the 7pm announcement and watching everything unfold. We walked down the street to where the other party (the Green party) was set up and met a man on the way who was running and was kind of related to the green party but independent. We talked to him for over an hour. He was a professor of philosophy in Canada for a long time. Anyways, it would be cool to know if he got into the Parliament which I guess was still an option when we found out eh blue party won and the green lost. The former Prime Minister was voted back in and there was a huge party int he streets at Syndagma Square so we decided to go join the party. We got huge Greek flags people we passing out and we danced and waved our flags int eh street like loyal tourists. We were on the News at least 4 obvious times. There were several stations there filming live and playing the news on huge screens in the square. The channel was called "NET" and I was wearing a purple shirt, that's all I know.

The next day we finished our tour of Athens and left in the evening for an overnight boat ride to Santorini. We have been renting a moped each day and just exploring everything on the island. It is really set up for rich tourists who want to do nothing but spend money so the moped is our fun. The sunset was gorgeous. Theres a volcano you can visit but you can only go by guided tour which we decided we hate so we won't be seeing that unfortunately.

Tomorrow night we head back by ferry and off to Corinth, Mycenae (hopefully if we can find accommodations), Nafplion, Olympia and then Patras where we sail to Italy.