Hungover in Corfu + I Can't Help Being Sexy in Pelekas...

Oof. Vacationing is HARD WORK. I woke up today with a pretty serious hang over. Which was so strange, I'm usually so good at preventing them. I bet it was that unknown liquor the bartender was giving us for free. It was probably turpentine or something. So Nina and I woke up, showered, and stumbled over to Corfu town to get some food.

Though my hangover was terrible, the day wasn't.

We walked around trying to find a suitable restaurant. We were looking for something that wasn't too pricey and something that wouldn't destroy our stomach linings. We finally settled on a delightful little cafe in one of the small back streets. For whatever reason, I wanted to sit in the sun and tan while we waited for our food.

About three minutes in I realized that was the worst thing I could have done for my recovery.

The food came quickly thankfully.

Ahhh, delicious lamb souvlaki. Or was it a gyro? No, no, souvlaki. ...right?

Then a cute little band came by and serenaded us with noise!

After our meal, Nina and I walked around the town. 

There were all these cute alleyways and streets. It was very easy to get lost here.

We had some gelato, talked, and relaxed. Then we walked over to the old fortress.

Now, THAT'S a bowser castle!

We debated going to it, but realized that we wouldn't have enough time. We were going to meet a few others and take a bus to Pelekas, which was rumored to have some of the most beautiful beaches on the island. So we ventured over to the bus stop, purchased our tickets, and hopped on. We didn't know exactly when we were supposed to get off, so we had to keep close attention. After about a half hour, we reached the end of the line. The driver told us this was the Pelekas stop. Though we didn't see a beach anywhere near us, on the far side of the intersection we saw a wooden arrow with the word "beach". We followed the arrow, hoping it wasn't somehow leading us to our doom.

Not that's some nice looking doom.

But we encountered a problem. The only way to get down to the water was by walking along this steep, curvy road that had no sidewalks.

As we walked, all we could do was hope the cars passing by were traveling slow enough to not hit us.

After what seemed like forever, we got to the bottom of the mountain. There was nothing but beach in front of us.

That view alone was totally worth the hike.

Some of the others were already here. We went into a hotel lobby to get onto the wifi so we could communicate with them.

This beach was huge. It seemed unlikely we would find our friends.

But somehow, SOMEHOW, we were able to get to them. We were reunited!

Now we could focus on the important stuff: SWIMMING!

AND THEN I BECAME A MODEL FOR A HIGH FASHION MAGAZINE.

AND THEN I GOT CAST IN THE NEW BAYWATCH MOVIE.

I HAD TO DO A SECOND TAKE BECAUSE I'M A PROFESSIONAL.

A couple hours passed, and we felt we had weirded out the local population enough. So we decided to wrap up and head to a restaurant nearby on the beach.

Being sexy in the sand makes me HUNGRY.

Fresh seafood and fries. Yum.

We drank wine, ate, gossiped, and laughed while we watched the sun set behind the hills.

We mostly just laughed at my face. Even I couldn't resist. BaHAH.

After dinner, a few of the others took a cab back to the hotel. The gang and I wanted to be adventurous (and save money) so we walked back up and took the bus. The bus was supposed to arrive a lot earlier than it did. We got a little nervous we had somehow missed it or got the schedule wrong. But, well, there wasn't really anything else we could do. So while we waited, we sang very loudly and obnoxiously into the night. Off in the distance we could see fireworks. Then surprise! The bus arrived! AND it was the right bus! So we hopped on and went back towards Corfu town, and then back to the hotel. Tomorrow we had to get up early, for we were off to Athens! (eeeeeeeeee!!!! ATHENS!!) I was excited to go to the Grecian capital... but, well, we were all kind of nervous...

The Greek economy may fundamentally collapse in the next two days...