Γειάσου from Patras! We arrived here yesterday after visiting Athens with plans to get on the ferry to Venice. But I goofed up and forgot that the ferry doesn't leave on Sundays, so we camped out in a church courtyard. I moved after finding a slug on my sleeping bag. Today we spent some time going around town. Turns out there are free bike rentals at the tourist information center so we pedaled our way to the Church of Ag...

We survived a volcano! Ben and I recently left the island of Stromboli, north of Sicily. Stromboli is an active volcano that continues to spew out lava on average every 10-20 minutes. You can only go up 400 meters on your own, but you can pay a guide to hike up and look into the crater of the volcano. We decided to go for it. It was the most physically challenging thing I have ever done. Once we got to the top, there it was...you could hear the cracks of th...