Athens Easy Hostel

... has remained in pretty good shape after all these years. Getting to the Acropolis was a pretty good hike but well worth the sweat (it's pretty humid here). It really is a sight to see, and to think it was all built by hand...no machinery at all. Though today, it is undergoing a lot of renovation so there is scaffolding and cranes everywhere. We still had many photo opps though and were very impressed by the ...

... been told the Pakistani guys aren't exactly legal. Along with a lot of African guys too. And I've been told they are causing problems for the cities. <br><br>-When I was at the beach it seemed like the majority of the people there were obese. It's pretty easy to notice when they wear 2-piece bikinis. I thought I read an news article a while back that said the Greeks were one of the fittest nations. All the olive oil eating. And when I ...

... you can't really see what's going on at the top of it. it just looks like walls. boy, was i in for a surprise! the steps to the ruins are like eaton centre on boxing day! there's people going every which way; standing, sitting, up, down, side-to-side, back in time, old people falling all over the place, little kids who i can only assume were left at the site while on vacation, women with basketball skin wishing they hadn't worn heels, and tour guides thinking about new career ...

... bronze, just to mix things up a bit). We spent the rest of the day there, partially because of the amazing collection, and partially because of the air conditioning. Tomorrow we get on a ferry to Mykanos. After that, Santorini, and then Crete. Again, if we canèt post more pictures or write more stories, we promise to do so later in the summer when weère back on semi-free, high-speed internet. Cheers!

... 1050 B.C. The sculpture collection is massive and included large works of stone and marble. Some of the highlights for me were the famous Kouroi statues, the ancient reproduction of the Athena statue in the Parthenon, and the statue of Aphrodite fending off the advanced of the faun Pan with her sandal. The bronze collection was also impressive and these works stood out more because there were far fewer than the marble and stone ...

Again, the tour we wanted to go on, the Acropolis tour, was sold out so we were stuck with the Panoramic tour which is basically for old people who can't walk well as its a 4 hour bus ride around Athens. It was the cheapest tour they had as it made no stops for any sightseeing on an up close basis ...

... to that. We have made remarkable memories together, memories that will be emblazoned in our psyches forever. We have learned each other and have exercised compassion, acceptance and understanding. We have touched each other on truly deep levels. We've transcended together by the sheer bonding experience of stretching ourselves beyond our comfort zones, beyond the familiar and into the unknown, un-chartered regions of this ...

... agent, i think it was a bucket shop. I term i found out meant does cheap deals for people from a certain area (e.g. middle east). I got a flight on royal jordanian next day to amman in jordan. I withdraw all but 20 bucks from my bank account and had just enough money for a gyro, a bottle of water and my accomadation. Luckily late at night the transfer went through. I was packing it. I tryed to get some guy in a photo shop to ...