Eden Beach Hotel Resort Anavyssos

... has more illegally looted Greek vases than you could throw dead dogs at." I invested a few hours working with the three young women on their final papers for persuasion and rhetorical criticism classes. The dining room table was full of laptops. For dinner, Scout and Papia made Chop. It was supposed to be Chop Suey, but Scout forgot the soy sauce, so it was just Chop.

... and the doctor would press the button himself to let them in. And he collected his fee from me in cash and made change out of his own wallet. I got to keep the x-rays as a souvenir. The doctor decided it's bronchitis. He prescribed an antibiotic, an antihistamine, cough syrup, and a bronchial inhaler. Lovely Lithe took me to the pharmacy and then delivered me straight to my door. I took the first round of all four meds and fell into bed for a nap. I'm going to ...

... en time (!) , og vi fandt allesammen flere ting, som vi bare maatte eje ! :o . Mange timer og gaagader efter spiste vi aftensmad og gik hjem paa hotellet, hvor vi snakkede til ud paa natten igen igen (tsk tsk) . Naeste dag tog vi paa Athens nationale akaaologiske museum, hvor vi rigtigt kunne bruge vores kundskaber fra oldlektionerne til at beskrive disse oldgamle akaaologiske fund . En meget engageret kustode tog os med om bag en statue, som var fundet ...

... I'm too busy madly writing down all the information so effortlessly dropping out of his mouth at breakneck speed. Today in Ancient Greek Monuments class, we traced a marble slab from the quarry on Mount Hymettus to its placement on the Parthenon. Fun fact: the quarry workers would hammer a wooden wedge into the marble where they wanted to cut it. Then they poured water on the wedge, and the wood would expand, cracking the marble out of the quarry ...

... a nana nap, before heading to the restaurant for a meal. My friend was there again, and he said "You hungry again?" I ordered my meal and a couple of beers, and then went to the roof top bar, where I could see the Acropolis lit up for all to see. It took two more beers before I was ready to retire for the night. I need to catch a taxi to the airport, by at 10am tomorrow morning, to catch my flight to Thira in Santorini. The moral of this story, GET A MAP!! It'll save you a lot of angst!!!

... in Egypt. We decided to splurge and went out for a great meal and I'm still amazed that the bottle of wine we ordered only cost 3 euros. The meal was amazing, but we quickly realized that eating out was not in our budget Now that we knew the way to the Acropolis from our walking tour we set out early to try not to be there in the heat of the day. We downloaded a tour of the Acropolis on Jesse's PDA ...

... But that award category will be in, and Greece will win it hands down, no contest. We should have had an inkling of trouble when the Istanbul train information folks - helpful, ever smiling, never rushed, able to answer any question - sort of squirmed when we asked about the trains to Athens. Every time we asked the price, he pointed at his list of Greek rail prices a little bit apologetically and very much non definitively - in retrospect clearly ...

As usual before a trip, I can't sleep. Got home late after a great concert (Calexico, Beirut, Sophie Solomon and A Hawk and a Hawksaw) so sleeping for a couple of hours would only make things worse. Coffee is a good friend as usual and keeps my eyes open. Good chance to check the bags again ...

... small town of Ancient Epidaurus and its nearby Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus. The Theatre was amazing. It was built in the 4th century B.C. and still holds performances for audiences up to 15,000 people. The acoustics are mind-blowing...although we didn't have the chance to try it, it's apparently true that if a person standing in the middle of the stage lights a match, an audience member can clearly hear it from anywhere in the theatre ...

... and disgusting city (we are definitely more beach-vacation people), but we were pleasantly surprised. We had a great cab driver who gave us a guided tour before he took too much of our money. As he drove us to our hotel we got a quick glimpse of the Olympic stadium, some ruins and some more ruins...and then we got to our HOTEL - which astoundingly had a view of ruins. We decided to splurge on the first night, and were not disappointed when we arrived at the Grand Bretagne ...