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I did not have a section on solo travelers reviews but when I got this following e-mail I decided to make one because not only was it a joy to read but it will also give people who are nervous about traveling alone the courage to do it. Its written by a French-Canadian and English is not his first language but he makes himself clearly understood and it is one of those e-mails I was so thankful to get that I wanted to show it off to everyone.
Hi Mr. Barrett, how are you ?
I don,t know if you remember me but i wrote to you last summer to make
a trip to greece from mid-july to mid-august. And i made it. For me it
was not only a trip or a vacation it was an accomplishment. I made the
trip of my life it was so nice and intense that now, i feel like a new
person, i have a different way of thinking, because of this incredible
trip. When my friend knew and my parents that i decided to go to greece
they was all like, why greece ? why you want to go this far ? But in my
mind, the place i wanted to go last summer was greece. I don,t really
know why, but inside of me there was something that was pushing me to
go there. When i arrived at the ariport in Montreal ( Quebec), alone
with my parents and they were leaving me so ican catch my plane in my
mind it was like : WoW, now i really in my way to go very far from my
country and i,m alone !
But there was nos stress at all, when i arrived in Athens and i saw all
the greek signs and people coming from everywhere, speaking greek,
english, italian i was lost alittle bit. But, the first day i was at my
hostel ( Athens backpackers, the best hostel in athens with a rooftop
bar incredible!)
i was already feeling good and free. I was already speking with people
from everywhere and making new friends, that was the party ! it was
just day one !
After Athens i went to IOS. What a paradise it was for me!!( 21 years
old ) and for all the crowd of hundred young people that where there at
this time of the year, i have no word to describe what i felt there. I
slept 2 night at the Ios Palace ( INcredible, unbeatable view, its near
the best beach of the island and near everything, I recommend it to
everyone, it woth every penny i pay to sleep there) and i slept 5 night
at the hermes hotel 9 very nice too, i recommend it too, very nice
pool, with lots of nice young people. I went to the bar every night and
i met new people evey day!! Many italian there ! In Ios every body is
son nice and it,s very easy to make friends. After this i went to
Santorini 4 days very nice, i have hundred pictures of that island. The
sunst is unthikeably nice.
After i went to the most charming, entertaining, fantastic,
unthinkeably nice place of my life : MYKONOS. Wow, even if it,s more
italian than greek, and there is almost no real greek tradition there,
i was 21 years old in a place that is in a league of it,s own! The
girls were so nice that sometime i was pinching me to know that i was
not dreaming !! I spend 10 days there and by chance that i had a plane
ticket to exit this place, because i would have stay there more time.
The only think that was missing me was the greek tradition.
So, Mr Barrett, i wrote you this letter to you because i really want to
thank you so much because if i haven,t foun your site on the internet,
my trip to greece would probably have been impossible , or very hard. I
took all my infromation on your site and that,s your personnal info
that made me chose to go to greece and spend big money on a place that
i didn,t even know one year ago, that is saying alot about the effort
you put on that site( it is a achievemnt for me) I also want to thanks
so many tiem the traval agency FANTASY Travel , i made my reservation
in Ios with them and they send me a letter in my hostels with many
different informations to guide me in Ios. They send a taxi to pick me
up at my hostel and bring me in the port at my boat, so there was no
stress for me. I was very happy to pay money and have a sevice so
great. Thank you all the member of fantasy travel, i will made
businness with you again anytime!
I was 21 years old, i was from Quebec ( french Canadian), i was alone,
my fisrt langage spoken was french, and i went in greece. That was the
rip of my life and i would have stay there all summer long ( if i had
the money :):):):) You should have see my friends faces when i showed
them the pictures from Ios and Mykonos, and the girls !!!
Yes, greece is not cheap for a canadian, but i made an achievement i
spend 1 month there alone and i made more friend than in 21 year in my
own country.
So, for all the young peolple that want to go there and have no idea
what greece look like in summer i have just one thing to say to you :
GO FOR IT!
SO finally, mr barrett thank you so much , because you made possible to me a experience that will stay in my mind all my life.
Yann
Quebec, Canada .
I went in greece from mid-july to mid-august
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