What is IOS2001?

It is a site dedicated to my first trip to the Greek island of IOS in 2001(and future trips). Why did I go to IOS? I went on the recommendation of a friend who went in 2000. Below you can read about my brother's trip and my friends.

In 1989 my brother and 3 friends (1 American, 2 Swedish) while vacationing on the Greek island of Egina got the great idea to go to IOS. After making their way to Pireaus, the port of Athens they boarded a boat to IOS, they didn?t bother to check how many stops it would make along the way, if there were sleeping facilities on board, how long the trip would take and most important what time the boat would arrive in IOS. Well the trip took 14 hours, made 5 stops and they arrived in IOS at 3AM. They arrived after every hotel had closed; they were forced to sleep on the beach. My brother recalls how cold it was as the 4 of them huddle together trying to stay warm as the fierce Meltemi winds kicked up on the bare beach they had sought out for shelter. Wondering would they survive to tell their tale, they did.

Summer 2000, more then a decade after that trip a friend of mine returned from vacation, telling stories of an island when alcohol flowed like water, beautiful women sang siren songs at night beckoning you into their place of employment. He spent his day lying on golden-sanded beaches where the water caressed and revitalized you like hot springs of a far off Scandinavian land. When I asked him the name of this paradise on earth he replied, "IOS". My face went blank and my body went numb. My friend looked at me and replied, "Are you ok?" I said, "IOS, the Greek island of IOS?" My startle look and puzzle reply left him bewildered and he then asked me if I had heard of it, I told him about my brother's trip and he laughed.

The two conflicting IOS experiences left me with only one thing to do plan my own trip to IOS. It was too late to go in 2000, and I had already spent a week in Greece that year so I started planning my first trip to IOS, I called it IOS2001.

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