Ios, Athens & Peleponnese

Ios, although traveling there with mixed feelings does live up to its
name. The name of parties, yet much more relaxed than its neighbour
Mykonos, and also an island which is great to explore. Matt and I did
the ATV thing again and did what seemed to be a bit of off roading to
get to Homers Tomb - a pretty isolated part of the island on top of a
beautiful hill. We spotted a few deserted beaches on the way to the
tomb and explored one of them on the way back to be rewarded with the
beach all to ourselves. The night life picked up around 10pm, just in
time for dinner there, and bar hoping was quite easy with bars located
every other building or so in the old part of town. Overall a great
island and I was a bit sad to leave, especially when it was towards
hot and ugly Athens.

Not much to say about Athens except that we had a heck of a time
trying to find our hotel on some random street in Plaka (the older
part of town). We were rewarded with a dump of a place, but for an
overnight stay is was good enough.

I'm now in Nofplio in the Peleponnese and it's quite a nice town. The
first capital of Greece it has some history, like much of Greece or
Europe for that matter. There are a couple large castles on hills
here which I'll try to tackle today, but with the heat it's quite a
chore. I'll be circling around the island through a few smaller towns
with my last stop in Olympia before heading back to Athens for my
flight to Madrid this Saturday. Then the second half begins...