PC Update 6/23/06: Greece

Hey Folks,

They charge by the minute for internet use here so I'll make this brief:

I caught a stomach flu on our second night of the cruise and got my wife and I quarantined for 24 hours. We fought it and managed to salvage our excursion into Croatia. I'm feeling better now.

Robyn however, is not so lucky. She caught the bug shortly after I did and was hospitalized today in Cofu, Greece (Day 4 of the cruise). Luckily there happens to be a clinic that specializes in touring Westerners so there's no language issue and they've been super accomodating. They treated her well and she is recuperating nicely.

I'm in a hotel down the street. When she gets signed we'll either start on the long haul home from Athens (the nearest big city) or we'll reassess our travel plans and try to salvage this honeymoon.

In the meantime, here are some random thoughts and quotes from the trip so far:

"Rome is a Third World city dressed in Gucci." Vatican Diplomat to India

When traveling to Italy, don't bother bringing credit cards because other than the hotel, nobody takes them. Since taking the Euro, this has become nearly an all cash society. Of course I found this out after insisting we didn't need to bring that much cash with us in the first place...and for that bit of reasoning, see the above quote.

Save the Boboli Gardens!

Ciao!