Marcin Juszkiewicz - greece

Greece vacations: part 2

2007-10-07T15:37:00+02:00

This time I will write something about roads on Greek islands and how people behave on them.

First thing which is easy to spot is amount of vehicles on road. There are cars, buses, mopeds, quads, motorbikes driving in any directions in different style. People on mopeds, motorbikes or quads goes without any helmets, in swimsuits only — probably they did not ever see “Live to Ride — Ride to DIE” website. Talking via cellphone during driving is very often — never mind does it is in the car or on motorbike, driving on rear wheel only is popular (I do not know — maybe they wanted to get some chicks?).

Roads are full of curves — many times 180° ones, mountains ones usually do not allow to see how goes road after curve or does someone goes from that side so drivers use horn to warning other side. There are mirrors on some curves but usually vandalized. Many times you get few hundred of meters altitude difference in few kilometers…

Road to nowhere

People parks cars where it is good for them (people, not cars) — it can be right after curve, on curve (never mind that there is double line on road). Hopefully in the city they tries to park only on one side of the street so buses are able to go. Bus drivers are other thing — they are awesome. With so tight streets they just go into and are able to turn on overparked intersection…

When you go outside of city you gets other interesting stuff like lack of barriers on gorge side, nearly no space to get two cars pass each other on the road.

Road to Porto Vromi

After our first trip I decided to rather not rent a car…

Greece vacations: part 1

2007-10-07T13:03:00+02:00

I decided to write about our honeymoon in few parts. Instead of writing day by day I will write about misc things in each part.

We spent two weeks on Zakynthos island (also known as Zante). It is one of Ionian islands with only few small cities full of tourists. Due to fact that most of them came from UK there are many annoyances everywhere:

all meals contains chips (french fries)
even fast food contains chips (hopefully not all)
all informations are in English and many of them do not even have a text in Greek
informations like “when you go home to UK you can take xxxx cigarettes” in shops
fat British girls are ugly
English looks like main language on island as it is hard to hear other language on the streets

But all of those annoyances can be ignored :)

View from window

We had a room at Katerina Palace in Argassi. In catalog it was written that it is few houndred meters from the beach but I would not call it a beach — it was just sea. Nearest sand beach is few kilometers from Argassi — you can get there by free bus from “Avalon” pub and it is really nice place to spend some time (the beach of course).

Speaking about sea… It is very clean but also awfully salty :)

Ionian sea

Back in Poland

2007-10-03T13:48:00+02:00

Today we returned from Greece to home. It was great holidays and we enjoyed them. I plan to write more about it soon.

Now it is time to dig through mails and prepare to OEDEM 2007.

Greece - we are coming

2007-09-15T15:10:00+02:00

Yes — next two weeks I will spend with my wife Ania on Zakynthos island in Greece — we are going there for honeymoon trip. Whole too weeks without working on Poky, OpenEmbedded, OpenMoko, without computers — just we, sun, water and walking, taking photos etc.

I do not promise any texts from our honeymoon as I usually forgets about writing them :)