Patras, Greece Travel Blogs

through the bridge to the land
Jul 16, 2008 (7 photos)

POLSKI: Spod Pyrgos jechalismy w strone Patry chyba na 3 raty. Przez jakis czas szlismy tez wzdluz drogi i zbieralismy melony, ktore wypadly z furgonetek. Arbuz przy upadku sie rozkwasza, a melon nie. :) Wygladalo to troche tak, jak ziemniaki na ...

Venice to Patras-on the ship
Dec 24, 2005 (30 photos)

... carrier: MINOAN Lines hints: buy tickets directly at the port, it is cheaper than in the tourist office from Venice to Patras das Boot macht gegen zehn Uhr abends in Patras fest. wir befinden uns noch auf dem Vergnügungsdeck und den Weg nach drauß ...

Venice to Patras
Dec 25, 2005 (16 photos)

where to stay in Patras? don't even think about staying in the youth hostel if you are traveling with your girl friend! at the time we were there, it was crowded with elderly strangely looking men, eating Baidi with their eyes. the proprietor tried to sell ...

Strikes in Greece
Oct 22, 2008

... . Bank staff, lawyers, journalists and civil engineers also joined the strike. Thousands of people take to the streets in Greece "The country has effectively come to a halt," said union spokesman Efstathios Anestis. "Participation is very high, in many ...

Patrasso to Pireo
Oct 24, 2008

Da Patrasso a Pireo (da dove partono i traghetti per le isole) si puo andare in due modi: autobus o treno. Entrambi le stazioni sono vicino al porto(uscendo sulla destra) L'autobus e' piu veloce(2-3 ore) e piu caro(28 euro). L'autobus e' organizzato ...

Smelly French cheese feet and unfriendly Greeks.
Aug 7, 2007 (3 photos)

... heads.  The staff on the ferry (SUPERFAST FERRIES) were very unfriendly.  We didn't sleep well.  When we arrived to Patras we experienced many unfriendly people as well.  I wonder if Greek is synonimous with unfriendliness.

Patra
May 8, 2008

The Bari Patra ferry was a great experience. Met some Americans and we drank the night away and woke up after having passed out on the.... restaurant floor. People were happily getting their breakfast around us. Patra is a hole.

One last day in Greece
Jul 22, 2008 (4 photos)

Pictures to come

Bari - Patras Ferry
Nov 13, 2008 (9 photos)

... only once when a steward flipped on the lights and warned us that the ferry would soon dock at a waypoint on the way to Patras. The engines caused the enire ship to rattle with a terrific cacophany, but it did not disturb our sleep. We awoke the next ...

Long trip to Greece...
May 7, 2007

We have made it finally...check next entry

Patras and the Long Road to Athens
Nov 13, 2008

... a pen for Jacy's journal. We returned to the train station to continue our long trek from Naples to Athens. We boarded a train in Patras, disembarked and boarded a bus in who-know's where, then switched back to a train in a place that begins with an L, ...

See Amalfi entry
Apr 12, 2006

See Amalfi entry

Scrambling around between connections
May 22, 2007 (5 photos)

Touchdown in Greece and so far it's looking sunny. Last night was, um, "eventful," what with all the chanting, drunken Liverpool fans. I didn't think people would have so many sports chants to run through across several hours. I also didn't think they'd ...

Patras, Greece
Aug 3, 2006 (4 photos)

Holy shit that was a long night and I should have known before we even left that it was going to be because of how much wine we brought with us. We had ten liters of wine for us two and I probably drank 3/4 of my 5 liters. I dont really remember much but ...

Patra
May 24, 2008

Map pin.

Delphes / Olympie / Nauplie
Sep 24, 2008 (1 photos)

Notre premiere belle journee ensoleillee !! Nous sommes partie tot de Delphe pour se rendre a Olympe, une rendonnee de 4 heures d"autocar. Une fois sur les lieux nous avons fait le tour des ruines d"Olympe et le premier stade ou les jeux ont eu lieu. ...

15 Hours Ferry ride to Itay
Aug 6, 2008 (5 photos)

A very long Boat ride

On our way from Bari, Italy to Patras, Greece
Jul 5, 2007 (5 photos)

... the day. We picked up our luggage at 5:00 pm and headed over to the SuperFast Ferry and boarded the "Blue Horizon" ferry for Patras, Greece. This ship was HUGE! As we were walking up the ramp, and onto the ESCALATOR, we watched semi-truck after ¾ ton ...

Greece At Last with Armed Civil Servants
Jun 11, 2007 (10 photos)

... do not strut around striking manly, heroic poses or everyone will suddenly start insisting that you write poetry and die elegantly for Greece. Reflections!! Gina and I reflected that, if we hadn't changed our minds, we could now be in the Caribbean ...

Deprature for Italy
Oct 8, 2009 (5 photos)

... road. A beautiful coastline road along the ugly freeway was taking me through lovely greek villages and wonderful senery. Arrived at Patras, the third ferry brings me overnightly to Brindisi, Italy, to arrive there at next morning. As usual: A night in my ...

Octopus Attack!
May 25, 2008 (19 photos)

From Delphi we headed to our hotel but drove a few hours, we stayed in Patmos on the Ionian Sea.  The views during the drive were fantastic I couldn't stop taking photos the entire time.  There were many people reading, or playing games, or ...

Startling revelations
May 30, 2007 (4 photos)

... nbsp;Compared to the inbound trip, there don't seem to be too many people going between Athens and Patras now, so getting a reservation was no problem. Trains in Greece are weird. On the way in from Italy, we caught a train out of Patras which was meant ...

Patras
Oct 12, 2005 (6 photos)

... waiting out the weather with great 12-15 k winds off our aft quarter. We flew under jib alone headed towards Patras, Greece. We are now in "central Greece" after leaving the Dodecanese and Cyclades Islands in the southeast portion of Greece. Just ...

Yasu Grecia
Mar 18, 2008 (8 photos)

... otro grupo de portugueses, asi todos juntos fuimos a buscar la estacion de trenes, y al encontrarla decidimos caminar un poco por Patras antes de pertir hacia Atenas. Lo primero que destaco en Grecia, fue la cantidad de Basura que tienen en las calles, ...

Pictures
Oct 21, 2008 (18 photos)

Some pictures from Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Hungary and Croatia. -laura

Ferry to Greece and Patras
Aug 5, 2006

... for the ferry to leave. After the ferry left, we had about 16 hours worth of travel time on the med sea before reaching Patras. Wheew.... The ferry was not a great time but it wasnt horrible either. We met some nice people and drank our wine out of ...

Athens
Mar 24, 2004 (3 photos)

... neat to watch. Previous to that we walked through the National Gardens, something created by one of the first queeens of an independent Greece. She was Austrian and was not used to all the rocks, therefore she decided to green it up a bit. After the ...

The Dream of all dreams
Oct 25, 2008

... from Italy.  We had to stay one night in Patra to get to Athens the next day.  (almost all public transportation in Greece excluding the ferries are striking)  While in Patra however we observed an immigration crisis up close and personal.  The actual port of ...

Grèce
Jul 31, 2007

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8 DAY PANORAMA IN ITALY
Jun 15, 2009 (7 photos)

... , running or threatening to hide in the trucks. These young poor people want to find refuge in other parts of Europe recently, because Greece is trying to catch them and send them away.  They hide in trucks and get in the ships for Italy. It is a ...