My Big Fat Greek…Weekend?

Mamma mia! I am definitely behind on my posts, what with traveling every weekend. However, since the end of this fabulous journey is nearing, I’m going to put out some posts about my last few weeks in Europe.

A few weeks ago, I went to Greece for an extended weekend. It was, essentially, a second spring break for me, since I ended up having a five day weekend over Easter. We decided to go through one of the travel agencies here, reading the itinerary and thinking we were in for a crazy weekend. Well, we weren’t exactly wrong but getting to Greece was not what we expected.

We took a bus three hours from Florence to Ancona, where we then boarded a cruise ship style ferry that took us overnight, seventeen hours, to Greece. From there, we had to wait for about an hour at a stop, and then catch an hour and a half ferry to the island of Corfu.

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While boats may have plenty of room to move around in, this was exhausting stuff, and we essentially spent over twenty four hours traveling. NOT something I would recommend. However, once we got to Corfu, it was beautiful!

My big fat Greek weekend was, to say, interesting. It was the most stereotypical college spring break ever, to be honest. There wasn’t much to do on the island of Corfu, besides hang out on the beach and drink or go on a booze cruise, so that’s all that pretty much went on that weekend. However, I did manage to get myself on an ATV and rode all the way up to the top of Corfu. This was super fun, and it was interesting to see that this mode of transportation was pretty common.

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On the Saturday night there, the hostel hosted a pink toga party, which everyone pretty much attended because there was nothing to do on the island. They definitely killed it with the Greek theme though, even having plate smashing! The next day, we took the whole day long journey back to Florence-I’m pretty sure I’ll be content if I never step foot on a boat again!

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All in all, I had fun in Greece, but I don’t think I would do it again if I could. I felt like there was nothing cultural to be had from this trip, and it was mostly drinking on the beach. However, I think this was just due to the fact that I took a tour company to Greece-if I had done it on my own, I would have picked another island that had more to do, for sure.

I don’t entirely regret this weekend though-how could you with this view?!

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