First blog | my holiday

Hello there! You probably are one of the first people visiting this blog, and for that I like to thank you. As I just came back from my two week holiday in Greece, I'll tell you a little about that!

So I went to Greece, Evia (also known as Euboea). It's the second biggest island of Greece, yet known by few. Which is a sad thing because of the beautiful nature and the loving and caring people who live there. I went with my boyfriend and my mother and had the best time at Achladi Beach Apartments

We came their on July the 13th, a day after my birthday, with a flight to Athens (fun fact, if you drive in or around Athens, you'll never see a sign to Athens Airport, but it's named differently) and a 3 hour drive. To get to Evia you can go over one of the two bridges in the capital Chalkida or take a boat. Did you know that the smallest bit of sea between the mainland and Evia is nothing more than 30 meters! 

When we were in Algali, the village next to ours, we had to take a very very steep road, and at first that was so scary! Luckily we had my boyfriend with us and he can drive so well. After this very steep road we ended up in Fragaki, a little village by the sea with a beach from the beginning to the end of the village. 

The place we stayed was somewhere in the middle of the village. When we came there we were greated kindly by one of the owners. During our holiday we've had many talks with this man at the bar while drinking away ice tea peach (me), freddo cappucino (my boyfriend) and ouzo (my mom). It was nice learning so much about the Greek culture and Evia from him and I like to thank him for all his kindness and caring. 

While we planned on doing active days and rest days on and off we pretty much ended up doing something everyday, but we would always be back and in the pool by 4.30. We slept out almost every day until noon and went for a ride. We visited and tried to visite some lovely places! We visited a beautiful waterfall, a exhumation (which turned out to be 3 blocks on a mountain), a huge church, a monastry,  a museum, hot springs, went on a boat to a little island (and then it started to rain) and some lovely villages. Yet to be found are the patrified forest and a very very big tree, I guess the trees didn't like us. 

I also got a tough lesson in the Greek alphabet and the prenounsing of the letters from a lovely lady from Athens. We shared the barbeque togheter as well and she painted my nails (that are still pretty ok, which is a miracle for me) and learned us many more things about Greece and it's culture, together with her husband. And their kid was so sweet, I'll miss her interest in ants!

On our last day we visited an old castle in the capital, on the mainland side of it. It had an impressing view and a very nice little gallary with parts from the castle and it was free! There we walked in to a group of children, and a lady explained that it were refugee children from Syria in a camp nearby Chalkida and they were guiding them around and giving them a good time. We saw their was a language barrier but I find it so kind and amazing what they were doing for those kids.

And lastly my boyfriend and I walked up the Akropolis in Athens. It was a toilful walk up but the view was amazing from up there. We could see so much of Athens and spot so many other sightseeingplaces. Like the temple of Zeus, where I went to the first time I was in Athens and I could tell a funny story to my boyfriend about it. So it was absolutly worth the walk and gave many beautiful pictures.

So I can say that I had an amazing holiday, learned so much and really wish I could go back A.S.A.P. But first I have to look through all my photos and selected the ones I want in my photobook! So I have enough to do for the upcoming time. Now I'll be hoping I can do that in a little bit of sun.

Lots of love, 
Sjarlie

PS. Some things to keep in mind is that because of the fact that their is little tourism, there are hartly any signs to those places and a good car is a 100% must (because of those steep roads, on our last eveing their was a man who couldn't get up and rolled himself in to trubble! He's fine though, thanks to the person in the car coming down.) 

PPS. For my dutch readers who would like to go to Evia, keep an eye out on my mothers website (www.pubbie.nl), she is writing the very first Dutch travaling guide for Evia and she wrote a blog every day during our holiday!

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