A Favourable First Impression

Hello everyone who reads this blog. It's been quite some time since we've last posted anything, and I suppose this isn't exactly justified. Even though living in London was an eye-opening experience for both of us, detailing it on a blog post for potential readers would be like force-feeding you Javex and wouldn't be nearly the same as telling you all about our adventures while on the road.
Well, having finished our time in south London, we were extremely contented in leaving the grey dinginess of Britain for the 32-34 degree cloudless skies of Greece. Athens was a brief experience, but a good one, as we had a fantastic hospitality-club host who helped us make the best of our limited time in Athens. We saw the Acropolis and that's about it (see pic of me in front of it), but we were happy with this as the sunny islands were relentlessly beckoning to us.
Today is our last day of three in Naxos, the largest of the Cyclades Islands. It is also the most fertile island, flourishing with olive, lemon, orange, and wine groves and has dramatic, sweeping vistas of the coast from the perches of its mountainous interior. Yesterday was strictly a "chill" day as we had no sleep in Glasgow airport upon arriving in Athens on Wednesday, and almost no sleep on our first night in Athens (good times late at night with Lena, our host, and an early morning ferry to catch!). So we slept in till late and went to the town beach in the Hora (every capital town of an Island is called the "Hora", means capital or primary town) to chill-ax and watch the world (and bikinis!!) go by.
Today, we rented scooters and negotiated our way through the mountainous terrain of Naxos. It is a very pretty island which fulfills your stereotypes of the Greek Islands: whitewashed square buildings perched along the hillsides, aqua blue water, large women in black habbit-type things sitting the shade of the village square, golden sandy beaches...ahhhh, these are the things that kept me "going" when I would get frustrated with my job in the winter!
Tomorrow (Sunday the 2nd of July) we are off to Santorini, supposedly the jem of the Cyclades. Our ferry leaves at 1:30, just enough time to go catch some rays at the beach!

Wish you were here,

Nick and Isabelle