Work trips Euro style

October 17-25th I had a work trip to Greece. During that time Matt had a work trip in Switzerland/France.

My trip was with the company I used to work with in Charlotte. They plan incentive trips for companies all over the world. During the trip they always go on site to operate the trip and usually bring a couple of travel staff with them depending on the size of the group. I had told my old boss I was living in London and would love to work any trips they may have in Europe. I was so excited when he asked me to go on a Greek Island cruise! Here is some info and pictures from my trip.

While it was a work trip and very busy we still had some time for fun. It was the NCL jade and the ship left from Venice. It was a week long cruise with stops in Corfu, Santorini, Mykonos and Olympia. The ship was very nice and the food was amazing (huge upgrade from London pub eats). I was also worried it might be cooler but the weather was high 60's low 70's and perfect to whole trip.

View from my Venice boat taxi

View of Venice from my cruise room balcony when we departed.

First stop, Corfu:

Old fortress

Sample platter the restaurant talked us into...way too much food for 3 people!

Greek salad

New fortress

View of Corfu from the balcony

Stop 2, Santorini. We had most of the day in Santorini and actually almost missed the boat on the way home (literally)! I had been to Santorini before and it was just as beautiful as I remembered.

One of the tender boats into Santorini

First stop: wine with a view in Fira

Donkeys on their way into town

We spent the rest of the day in beautiful Oia!

I did get to catch one of the beautiful Santorini sunsets outside with a glass of wine in my hand. 

Perfect ending to a perfect day. We shopped around in Oia and had some drinks at a local bar. Then took the bus back to Fira JUST in time to catch the last tender to the cruise ship.

Our third stop was Mykonos. This is always somewhere I have wanted to go so I was probably the most excited about this stop. It was a daytime stop so I did not get to take part in the great nightlife but the city was beautiful and hopefully I can go back with Matt one day.

We made friends with Petro the giant pink pelican, the mascot of Mykonos!

Lamb, pitta and taezeke!

Our last stop was Olympia...the location of the very first Olympic Games. Unfortunately we did not have time to see the Olympic site but we did get to visit the town, have lunch at an amazing little Greek restaurant and do a bit of shopping.

Gyro!

I flew strait home to London after we docked in Venice. All in all, it was a fun work trip and nice to catch up with old coworkers.

During my trip Matt had a work trip to Morzine, France. They flew into Geneva, Switzerland and made the hour and a half drive to Morzine. They stayed in a really cool Chalet but it was mostly work this trip. He did swim in an Alpine lake, went ice skating and drank a lot of wine. It actually snowed while he was there! This was crazy to me as I was in shorts and it was snowing where he was. Yet we were both only about an hour and a half flight from London. I asked him to take some pictures for me and these are what he brought back. 

The Alpine lake Matt swam in

Snow!