Joe Brealey

Straight off the plane and onto the bus, we immediately got to experience the brutality of Greece that we just aren’t used to. Graffiti was everywhere to be seen ranging from stating someone’s favourite cereal to what I’m guessing are gang signs. Halfway to the hotel the bus stops at a bus stop to offload its passengers, when an old woman was squashed between the door-ways and kicked off the bus. Through all our efforts to tell the driver it seemed that he didn’t care and we just kept going. This was the type of behaviour that we were going to need to get used to.

Fast forward to later that night, we were atop Mt Lykeittos and with one hour sleep over a 46 hour period I was fading in and out of consciousness along with the other five boys that surrounded me (feeling pretty glad that I wasn’t Ben and Kevin who had to give a speech that night). The view was amazing but it was hard to appreciate seeing as my eyes were only letting me see for 5 seconds before fading out. We finally headed back to the hotel for a night sleep of which I was hoping would finally cure me of my sleep deprivation. (I was very wrong as I would find when I was woken by an obnoxious ringing phone call at 6 the next morning).

Four days later, I have already scavenged around the city of Monastiraiki square (which soon became known between us as Swag Central because of the hairstyles that filled it) for food, been thought of as a drug dealer in Delphi, bought a few tacky presents to take home (that will probably break by the time we reach France), been interviewed by what I am pretty sure was a hobo and we have finally reached the current time of 4:58 p.m. Monday 22^nd where I find myself on the fanciest boat I have ever seen which is my first opportunity to rest and recover.

Up till now I have already seen too much to talk about with the Temples and Churches which were so much more impressive than I thought they were going to be. Currently looking forward to Pompeii the most of all but I think that I am bound to find something that is more extraordinary.