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Patras Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Patras, Greece
through the bridge to the land
This is a top pick! 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
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
From Italy to Greece
This is a top pick! ... when the air was a pleasant 80 degrees. I have never seen water this blue before and something about it doesn’t seem natural. Patras doesn’t seem like the kind of place I would choose to stay for long, but luckily, it does have what I need. ...
Venice to Patras
This is a top pick! 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 ...
A CHRONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT OF SKY-TALL EVENTS
This is a top pick! ... night. And before that, my camera had been stolen. Until then, I would've said that one of the few good things about Greece was that you don't need to worry much about people stealing from you. But, somebody entered my tent when I had it near ...
CARNAVAL IN PATRA
This is a top pick! ... taken me and her son out to lunch. She was calling my house now to check up on me. My mom told her I'm in Greece. Mrs. Bonita Harmond's willowing voice responded: "All I know about Greece is, it's in his hair." The worst thing is that ...
Strikes in Greece
... Greece: Strike-hit Greece at standstill Air traffic, urban transport and public services have ground to a halt in Greece, where hundreds of thousands of people have walked out on strike. Thousands marched through Athens in protest at ...
Patrasso to Pireo
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.
... 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 ...
Patra
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 ...
Navegando por el Adriático
... . El clima era nublado y un poco ventoso, pero no impidió que pudiera contemplar el Adriático y sus islas. Cerca de las 6 llegamos a Patras y mi idea era dormir allí porque no quería llegar a Atenas de noche. Los chicos me convencieron y salimos en el ...
Patras, Greece
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 ...
Delphes / Olympie / Nauplie
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 ...
On our way from Bari, Italy to Patras, Greece
... 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 ...
Rome to Athens in 30 hours
... about 12 hours. Probably the most sleep I have had since I left Ireland. It was wonderful and I felt energized the next morning. The boat arrived to the port of Patras and from there I took the shuttle bus the 4 hour journey to Athens. ...
Greece At Last with Armed Civil Servants
... 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 ...
Scrambling around between connections
Touchdown in Greece and so far it's looking sunny. Last night was, um, "eventful". Mayu would probably opt for another adjective. In any case, it certainly wasn't peaceful, what with all the drunken, hollering Liverpool fans. I never knew soccer fans had ...
Patras
... our prudence 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 ...
Yasu Grecia
... 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 ...
Athens
... 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
... 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 ...
it is getting cold
Patras to Venice 1000 – 1200 Ks ? 18-19/01/10 As to be expected the ferry trip was long and boring. The food was way to expensive and so was the booze. So i had very little of both.. I have to save my money for the large volumes of booze in ...