To be back again!

Surprised first off of how much of Athens I remembered. It was really easy to fin my hostel even at 6am with 2 hours of sleep under my belt. Unfortunately I couldn't check into my hostel until 2pm. I walked around Plakas and the base of the Acropolis then had some fantastic Greek coffee and lunch. Headed back for a much needed shower and nap before wandering the streets more. Shockingly had a Gyro and Mythos for dinner. Yum! Then headed back to watch Barca play Milan with my roomates. One from Tasmania, Germany, India, Pakistan and myself. Most ethnically diverse room I've ever stayed in! It was so fun to talk and laugh from people all over the world. Stuff like that restores my faith in humanity :D Also Barcelona won so all's right with the world :P the next day I headed out to catch the bus to Volos. It was eerie to retrace my steps from a year and half ago but it was so transcending and cool as well! God is so wonderful!

Let's go!!!

Back to Lisbon after a solo day in Porto which basically involved surfing and shopping. Ahhh so wonderful!!! I booked into a more central hostel in Lisbon this time around. Only a few minutes from the metro. Dropped my things off and went out for some dinner! Met two lovely folk at my hostel that night, sat around talking for hours about anything to everything. It was sweet! Anton is from Australia and Janna is from Holland (I know what are the chances!) but she'd lived in Lisbon for two years previously. I tell you making friends with people who speak the language is the best! Anton was supposed to flu out that morning but he got the day wrong so as Janna and I were about to head out for the day he called at us to wait! Hahaha. It was really funny he made it all the way to he airport before he realized his flight was te next day! We bused to Belem and had traditional Portuguese Pasteis de Belem. We spent the day in Belem, explored a bit. Had kebabs for lunch and climbed the Belem tower! I even tried Sagway-ing!!! Umm ridiculously fun by the by :D
Headed in early to make dinner and then walk down to catch the bus to the airport. Greece here I come!

Port-O!

Bused from Lisbon to Porto to meet Janna and Marijke(her friend). We all met at our hostel around 2ish. It was so amazing to see Janna again! And so good to meet Marijke :) we explored Porto for awhile and chatted and caught up on everything that's happened in the last year and a half. It was also really great to be traveling with people again! We found a quaint restaurant for dinner tucked away in a little side street. The owners were awesome and adorable!
That night we did a Port wine tasting. To say it's strong wine is the understatement of the year. But it was fun trying to taste all the top notes and learning to sip wine like a true expert. We lasted until 3am but then we had to go to bed. Woke up early ate some yummy breakfast and headed to the beach for a day of sun bathing and surfing. After some more morning coffee we rented boards and hit the waves. Much better conditions this time around! It was so amazing to be surfing next to Janna after eveything that's happened. On wave we even caught together and sailed into the shore side by side. Magical.
After a couple hours we breaker for lunch and because we were crazy exhausted! We stopped into a really cute bakery got some food and then some ice-cream and took the old city tram back into town. What. Lovely way to finish the beach day!!!
That night we spent the night in and ate a lot a junk food and relaxed. It was so amazing to see Janna and I still dint believe it actually happened! She's so wonderful! I can't wait for my next trip to Europe so we can visit again!!!