Archive | May, 2009

8 May 2009 0 Comments

Santorini: Some Things You Must Do in a Lifetime

I think Santorini was the trip of “you only get to do this once in a lifetime.” It seemed like every crazy activity my friend Tammy and I got ourselves into was extremely exhilarating or just plain crazy. 1. We decided to walk up an active volcanoe, in flip flops, and with solely two bottles [...]

2 May 2009 0 Comments

Mykonos: the Vacation/Study Abroad Experience You See in the Movies

Funny enough, Mykonos has probably been the most memorable consecutive 4 days I have EVER had in my life. It was filled with the type of memories I would tell my grandchildren and reminded me so much of the story my Aunt Candace told me about her and my mom in Jamaica. For one, we [...]

1 May 2009 0 Comments

Athens, Greece: Modernization Meets Antiquity

After a 6 hour bus trip from Sevilla to Madrid and an overnight sleepover in Madrid’s airport, I finally was off to Athens, Greece which would be the amazing entry port to my Greece experience. As I have found in many European cities, modernization has seemed to consume every corner leaving very few neighborhoods to [...]