Since my trip to Zakynthos last month (which was originally supposed to be as a summer of work but just ended up as a pretty awesome 2 week holiday), I’ve been meaning to upload a few of the nice photos I took … but just haven’t gotten around to it,.. until now.

I would have taken a lot more photos (and videos) but I felt that a lot of the whole experience was quite private & personal and was best kept in my head as a memory. I was never going to put all of the photos online anyway

… so… eh… yeah! – here’s a few to check out:

Only back a while from what turned out to be a 2 week holiday instead of an entire summer in Zakynthos. Will put up a more comprehensive post about my Zante experience at some stage, but for now, here’s a video I took of the shipwreck at Smugglers Cove (Navagio) on the north west of the island.

So, I’ve… er… decided to go for it!!

After having the idea of flying away on a sun holiday and not coming back – finding a job over there and staying for the summer… I’ve actually gone ahead and booked flights and will be heading out on Saturday June 6th (just over a week away) with a return flight booked two weeks later.

Unfortunately, there were no full packages left for the dates I wanted (I wanted to go as early as possible) and therefore I have flights only – no accommodation sorted out … yet!… although – from what I’m told – that won’t be difficult to find, once I land.

My destination is the Greek island of Zakynthos (or “Zanté”). I chose it because I’ve been there before and it’ll be somewhat familiar to me – and because there’s plenty of bars there (including a good few Irish bars) so finding a job over there might not actually be all that hard.

I’ve been chatting with some people who are over there already (including a girl working in the local radio station) and it’s all been very encouraging so far – with the possibilities of jobs looking like being either a a barman, or – preferably! – a resident DJ in one of the hundreds of bars there (… oh, or both, of course!)

So … yeah! Here I go on an adventure… whether I get to “accidentally on purpose” miss my flight home and it lasts the whole summer has yet to be seen. I already know that if it does, I won’t have a job to come back to – so staying there will have to be worth it, and I’ll have to be able to save a few quid…

Hell, I COULD just spend the two weeks purely a holiday – hop from resort to resort, staying somewhere different every couple of nights, make the usual day-trips (I definitely want to take the boat trip from Porto Vromi to Smugglers Cove beach, and a trip to Zante would be wasted without seeing Kefalonia again)… but doing it PURELY as a holiday… that’s kinda boring! Been there, done that… If the opportunity comes up to stay and work there for the whole summer (and you know I will be looking!)… I’m gonna grab it.

You only live once, and – for once – I’ve nothing to hold me back!