More Athens Pictures

Emre and I at the bar on the top of our Hotel in Athens with view of Acropolis in background
Dinner in Athens

Emre and gelato ;)

Emre and I at the Parthenon

Me and ancient Greek things...

Visa Application Submitted for Spain!

Look! In Cyprus you can buy pure msg and placenta soap all in the same shop........uh-umm..

The University Hostel where we stayed for two weeks on the right hand side. It is located in the old town part of the city right next to the 'green line' that divides the city from the Southern Greek side from the Turkish North side.

A day at the beach :)

Emre at Nissi Beach

Last Thursday night we spent carefully getting everything ready, all of the paper work, to give to the Spain Embassy. We got up really early on Friday morning to be sure to get there right when it opened in the morning. We skipped up to the door so happy we could finally apply. Then, a sign greeted us telling us that the Spanish Embassy is closed today for a Spain public holiday. Unbelievable! So...Yesterday morning we went and finally submitted everything. They said it should take 15 days and up to one month for the visas. Yaaaaaaayyyyyyy!

And so now we wait. I have started to teach myself some spanish, and am looking for jobs online as well as a temporary place to live when we first get there. We have a few friends of friends who live in Barcelona that I am going to arrange to meet as soon as possible in order to help me to find a job. Some have contacts in the health industry and some with the UN so hopefully something will pan out-at least until I know better Spanish :)

Emre is busy with work here and we have been spending a lot of time catching up with friends. On Saturday we borrowed a friends car and went seaside. It was a beautiful sunny day and we even jumped in the water for a swim. Love this weather! I'll post some pics here of our day at the beach. Also, a picture of the hostel we were staying in (grandma and al this should look familiar to you ;).

This coming sunday is easter here so everyone has work off and most people are with family. Thnking of doing an easter lunch here though because the size of the porch at our friends house where we are staying is amazing!

Enjoy the pics! I'll post some from Athens as well--see you here again soon! Happy Easter everyone :)

Cyprus

And so we have made it to Cyprus. Unfortunately no internet at the University hostel we are staying at so I haven't been able to update the blog. Tomorrow we move into a friends house who is going away to Thailand for a couple of weeks. She needs someone to water her plants and we need a place to live-perfect!

We had an amazing time in Athens before arriving here. We managed to make it to the Acropolis this time and took a lot of pictures which I will post next time as they are on my laptop. Will write more details of Athens then too...

For now, we have been harshly reminded of how slowly things move here and with lack of any logic or reason whatsoever! The Mediterranean sun produces a truly unique mentality. Today we will finally go pick up our Cyprus residence permits and with those we will go to the Spain Embassy tomorrow morning to apply for the Spanish visa. Then, supposedly, we should be good to go in a month..hopefully sooner!

In the meantime we are enjoying the warm weather--in the 70's and 80's each day, and are excited to borrow a friends car this weekend and go to the sea and join the vacationing British swimming hopefully :)

See you here in a few days when I will post pics and write more.

Love and miss you all!!