Diving Kalafati Greece

lobster
rock fish

wreck 90 feet down
yes they have eels here too

the water is crystal clear and the visibility is amazing. i refreshed my PADI liscense and went for a dive off the rocks on monday. the dive school Kalafati Dive center is good. Vladimir, Kostas, Rodriqo, etc. are the very best at what they do. attached are some shots of the dive the very next day off the boat 1/2 mile offshore Kalafati. i got into the water and Yiannis took shots. i think one of the divers is me, but i am not sure. but posting shots of the wreck at 9o feet, we only went 60 feet, lobster, rock fish in urn, and etc. enjoy !

its just been waking up early to go diving, partying until late at night, and enjoying the view and the good hospitality. i have met quite few people who are coming to hawaii at some point but it had been extradordinary trip here in greece.

Anne and Huw

anne and huw
naked bar???

we had the good fortune to meet anne and huw at the bar one night and ended chatting them up. they are from england and were on vacation. apparently they face a very cold winter in england and there is no sun for quite a while and they come to greece for last minute sun. we've been hanging out with them for the last couple of nights and having drinks. the're good eggs.

misty left back to athens and then home to honolulu to be at work at sunday. it is surreal to me that it has almost been a full month of vacation....

Greece

sunset in Mykonos
diving in mykonos

went swimming with a dive group and ended up having to strip in front of 50 tourists to get off the dive boat because the line broke. it was very cold to swim back. tomorrow going to go and recertify and get back into diving. going around the coast. freaking cold here. the weather has been so bad that the planes and the ferries were not runnning for two days so everyone was stuck here. but its been totally cool.

Castro Bar - greece

Big pelican's that walk around mykonos for the tourists
Mister Hotness and Hubby John
markus
Australian marcus and Colorado Neal

Jewelry Shopping

can u say 100,000 us dollars for earrings
220,000 us dollars for necklace
200,000 us dollars ruby necklace

mykonos harbor


at this point the owner closed the door so we could not run out

Kastro Bar

me and konstantinos
yiannis at NOBU
Michalis, Konstantinos, me and Jeff

awesome bartenders at Kastro Bar
can u say lemondrop

mysti and yiannis

house in greece
church on landowners land

Waiting for a hotel

Mysti at 7 am

we were so freaking tired we were up at 3 AM to get to the airport
i found a cat tp take home with me
naked people on the beach called Paradise

Athens, Greece

wild dogs

so, i landed in athens with about 10 hours to kill so i decieded to go to Athens and meet up with Misty versus waiting in the airport for the night. Caught a cab ride with a guy who builds boat docks named Alberto. The flight was okay, however the airline checked my bag all the way to Mykonos or otherwise it was still in the airport somewhere - so always check where ur bag is going to turn up and don't rely on what the ticket says.

Met up with Misty at Athens Backpackers place which was expensive, i think for a hostel. but ended up meeting two really cool gals who plan to come to Hawaii named Tessa and Dalia, one from Califonria and one from London.

Misty and i woke up at 3 pm to go to the bus station (3 euros or 5 us) which was the only alternative versus the cab (40 euros- 55 us). we were acoompanied by five dogs, who apparently in greece just wander around because no one takes care of them. owners just leave them to the streets because they either get expensive or they don't care. these dogs were protecting us as we walked to the bus station. it was surreal. a guy was walking toward us and they started barking at him, at that time he raised his arm up to ward them off and they started really growling. as we walked by the national park there were several dogs who started barking away at our gang of dogs. as we go to the bus stop there were another gang of dogs who started barking. it was dog wars.... in any case i think our gang of dogs were protecting us and we ended up just fine taking the bus and waiting at some ungodly hour for the plane to take off.

inside the church

statute under the red marble of a golden skeleton holding an hourglass

inside the main area
typical roma streets
the brown long wall is part of the original wall in ancient Roman times, the old city was constructed and as time went by civilization just built outside the wall - urban sprawl

behind vatican city - private gardens
Vatican guards
PIZZA !!!!!!


one nice of hundreds of statutes in the church
example of wall painting

this door is opened every 25 years, so 2025. it supposedly clears away all sins

hear that you sinners? bettah get ur asses through that door

picture of vatican city where no one goes

angela and I - we were sweating like pigs but they have a dress code here

Late 1600 vatican city - michelangelo created the statutes and the square