Ios Sucked
Arrived in Ios-Greek Islands after a long (9hrs) ferry trip. Hungry and tired and without accomodation for the night stepped onto the port at 1am. Had met a friend from London (small world) on the ferry so we met up with his friends at the port and they kindly offered for me to stay with them for the night. Thinking I was finally going to get some sleep after being up at 2am the night before we went up to the village to their place.
We had just dropped our bags when Kelly decided that being our first night on the island we just had to go out. Long story short I did finally get to bed at about 7am that morning! and then up again at 11am to go find a place to live so I could have a shower and a proper sleep in a bed.
Found great little apartment with aircon, TV and own bathroom for 10 euro/night and slept for nearly a day. It took me a day to explore Ios- mainly because there is nothing there. Job prospects poor as still fairly early in season. Only job available they call a 'floor hore'. Basically your job is to lure people into club and then keep them there. Get paid mostly in alcohol and bit of cash but have to work 7 days per week. Other option was to eork in a resturant which I was keen to do but as I mentioned being early in season there was nothing available.
Not much to do on the island. Pretty beach but little else. Barron mountainous landscape meant exploring was a mission and usually resulted in heat exhaustion. The entite population of the island seemed to be young singles who slept on beach all day and partied all night.
Met a really cool chicka Sharni having dinner one night. We were both sitting alone and struck up a conversation. Long story short we really hit it off and the next day she moved into my place and we hung out together for a few days. She too was not overly impressed with the island so after 2 very long weeks in Ios I boarded a ferry to Santorini in search for jobs, something interesting to explore and people who wanted be your friend not your bed buddy. Sharni decided to join me.
We had just dropped our bags when Kelly decided that being our first night on the island we just had to go out. Long story short I did finally get to bed at about 7am that morning! and then up again at 11am to go find a place to live so I could have a shower and a proper sleep in a bed.
Found great little apartment with aircon, TV and own bathroom for 10 euro/night and slept for nearly a day. It took me a day to explore Ios- mainly because there is nothing there. Job prospects poor as still fairly early in season. Only job available they call a 'floor hore'. Basically your job is to lure people into club and then keep them there. Get paid mostly in alcohol and bit of cash but have to work 7 days per week. Other option was to eork in a resturant which I was keen to do but as I mentioned being early in season there was nothing available.
Not much to do on the island. Pretty beach but little else. Barron mountainous landscape meant exploring was a mission and usually resulted in heat exhaustion. The entite population of the island seemed to be young singles who slept on beach all day and partied all night.
Met a really cool chicka Sharni having dinner one night. We were both sitting alone and struck up a conversation. Long story short we really hit it off and the next day she moved into my place and we hung out together for a few days. She too was not overly impressed with the island so after 2 very long weeks in Ios I boarded a ferry to Santorini in search for jobs, something interesting to explore and people who wanted be your friend not your bed buddy. Sharni decided to join me.
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