Amalia Hotel Athens

... just on his way to this same place! Of course it’s a classic scam, the helpful tourism worked who happens to know this ‘great place’. I’d almost feel violated if it wasn’t for the fact that we were led straight to the place we wanted to go to anyway!

As it turned out the meal was quite nice and we sat outside under an awning in the teeming rain. We walked back to the hotel when it has eased off and packed up ready for the early start.

It is a long way to Athens from San Francisco. We went to bed at 12:30am Tuesday, got up at 3:30 am, caught a plane to JFK, had enough time to grab drinks at Starbucks and head to our gate for a 10 hour flight to Athens. Early Wednesday morning the sun rose as we were making our way across the Peloponnese. There was fog in the in the valleys. What was surprising was how mountainous and rugged the terrain is and ...

ALLLLLRIIIGGHHHTTTTTTT landed in Athens what a LONG journey! had to take a 7.5 hour bus ridee to split then take a cab to the airport spen over 9 hours in the airport then fly split to zagreb then to vienna then to athens almost 7 hours. I was going to catch the bus down to the port to catch an 11 hour ferry at midnight but thought hey I am IN the airport should check out flights booked a flight to heraklion at 720! there is a bus at 9 that goes to Rethymno but no bus to ...

... pins and patches. He seemed
quite happy with them, so that was great.


My last full day in Athens. By this
point I was determined not to let my hostel experience influence my
thoughts of the city, and after that, I really started liking the
city. And worse case scenario, the hostel will give me a cool story
years down the road. Nothing was taken, so that's the main thing.
If something went missing, I think I would be in a different mind
frame.
Athens, Attica, Greece twhitesell

... The the Greek history with hundreds of statues in marble and bronze took us 4 hours to see. Such a change of pace compared to Africa where it was parks and not many museums. On the second day it was off to the Acropolis. Very grand sitting up on the hill, with the Parthenon pretty incredible. We enjoyed our day walking around the ruins and seeing the Temple of Olympian Zeus and Ancient ...

... in his fridge for us. We quickly got our things settled in the room and grabbed our camera and a day pack and headed for the Acropolis. It was very close to where we were staying which was nice because the day was very hot. We haven't seen a drop of rain since we left Alberta. Only sun and heat. The Acropolis is set on the highest hill in Athens. We can see it from our hotel and probably from just about anywhere in the city. We paid our ...

... and then yelled his name "JASON!"...when the guy turned around Step said "Hey! It is you!". So we had to go in and do the obligatory photo with a random US actor in Athens who was planning on renting a sail boat and sailing around the Greek Islands with his new wife and friends...must be nice. Not quite sure what we did for dinner that night, but of course we ended up at the hostel bar for happy hour and strong drinks made by ...

Athens is full of three things, Garages, Garages oh and Garages, I have never seen so many car dealerships in my life, Main dealer for Mazda followed by another main dealer for Mazda then a shop and then a Main dealer for Citreon, a bit further down the road anothe main dealer for Mazda, there was all the other car makers too! all I wanted was a pint of milk! Well to be truthful there was lots of garden centres ...

... to the Acropolis. From the train station, you could see the main building of the Acropolis high on top of the hill. We didn't really know where to go, so we just kind of wandered in the vague direction, going up and around. It turns out we were walking up some very historic street (forgot the name already), but anyways, we passed a ton of tavernas, trattorias, and souvenir shops, so we figured we were in the right place. We finally made it to a security gate which had ...

... but that is about it, knowing that this is the one time in my life where I can just worry about how to find the archaeological museum in Greece and not much else. Today was our free day in Athens, and being Sunday, EVERYthing is free, which is a great idea. I was very disappointed with the pictures I took at the Acropolis last week, so I set off for that again, hoping to get photos that ...