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

Vatican City and Roma, Italy

I have to clarify that the pics of Norway and Iceland are my cousin angelas pics.

i remember now, duh, why i can't live in cold weather. it because it is too freaking cold. I start to sleep a lot longer, my blood thins out, and i just can"t function. ï decieded to high tail it out of germany and visit my cousin in Roma. If i went to Norway and Iceland I just would freeze and not come back. at least the weather in Italy is very nice - humid and warm.

Angela works for the United Nations, Food Agricultural Organization, and they are headquartered here in Rome for South Africa. I have to say she has a pretty cool job. kinda like Angelina J with that movie that she made but got blown up in a land mine - but this is real life and she goes to the field but i think it is safe.

I am posting pics of Roma. Yesterday we went to the Vatican City - created late 1600's -and it was pretty cool. There were a shit load of tourists but it was well worth it. The Vatican guards, not the ones pictured in uniform are HOT, real italian men. I couldn't get a shot with them because it would just be so cheezy. The ones pictured in uniform i feel sorry for. Apparently the uniforms are ones that Michelangelo created and they still wear today. They, the men guards, all come from a certain country, can't remember where right now, and work for the Vatican. i posted a postcard from the Vatican City that should be coming to DLNR that says the Vatican, so that should be really cool.

I took some pics inside the church but they are blurry but u can get an idea of the gradeur that Rome was in the 1600's. if i remember correctly with histiry books, it was called the Golden Age/Renaissance years. Art was in full swing and aspiring artists were able to be seen due to the help of the church and kings....

I have not gone into town today, because it is raining and thunderstorming. I am just chilling, doing laundry, posting, and chilling out. It would all be so pleaseant if not for the mosquitoes that seem to be proliferating out of nowhere-MFKssss. shopping in Roma seems dangerous, and there is still a last chance to walk thrugh the duty free shops on the way out of Italy to Athens...

Italian men look at everything here it seems. you just have to be within 50 feet and their heads swivel around to check u out. but everyone is very polite here. the pizza is like nothing u have ever had in the states. It is light but has just the best stuff on it. my cousin says that everything produced here is organic and not processed, or fortified, or whatever, and people really like fresh food. I have to say the tomatoes are fresh, juicy, and light tasting. the Pasta is all good. the pizza, again, i could eat the whole damm thing. Italians for the most part look nicely put together. you see the older women walking around arm in arm, young people fashionably dressed, etc.

Vatican City Roma Italy