Hotel Astir Patras

... It wasn't a shoulder after all, but a simple strategy for making the 2 lane road into 4 for passing!<br><br>Roads adorned with olive trees almost as far as the eye can see. Interspersed with a few orange frees so ripe with fruit you can smell it from the road. Grapes grown more for their shade benefits over arbors than for their fruit. Flowering plants I&#8217;ve only seen in botanical gardens are run-of-the ...

Destination 398<br><br>[Ferry]<br><br>After leaving the city of Piraeus without any roadmap and taking the overcrowded toll freeway to the connected Island of Peloponnes I left the busy freeway to go on along the main road. A beautiful coastline road along the ugly ...

... br>No Dino didn't want to stay in Greece he wanted to leave then and there. We asked about Italy. <br>"Sure no problem, there is one at 6 tonight going to Bari."<br>"Ah, but is it available?"<br>Click, click, click "Yes."<br>"OK we will take it." (&#8364;53 each to Bari, one way on deck)<br><br>Our Greek adventure although short had already come to an end. Dino hated Greece the first time around and it wasn't any better this time. He is glad to ...

... and everything inbetween has been such a noisence. I don't usually stress or break down or anything, but i can say that yesterday was almost the final straw. I was about 2 seconds away from kicking in some random dude's gyro stand down, i was going to kick his uncleared table full of plates (Because they're soo lazy, they never clean the plates or drinks off the tables anywhere, quickly) and then, i was going to proceed to curse at the top of my lungs while punching ...

... the city center to try and catch a bus. We walked for a good 10 minutes in the heat and then flagged down a taxi. We made it to bus station about 3 minutes before the bus was leaving, booked our tickets for 17 euros and were on our way.<br><br>Made it to Athens, checked into our hostel, got some good old Subway for dinner (everything closes early here), and went to bed.

... going but he seemed a little creepy so we just kept walking away from him. We eventually found the right bus which took us to the Metro and we took the Metro to the Plaka. It was absolutely packed and there was someone playing a piano on this roof with cameras and huge lights everywhere. It turned out that the next day they were opening the Parthenon museum and that is why it was so crazy. <br><br>We made our way to Argonaut travel and made our arrangements for the next day to leave ...

... Turkey, Afghanistan, Palestine, and all across the Middle East and Africa.  Then in large groups they climb the fence line to finally get into Greece.  Greek police officers and immigration officials vigorously patrol the kilometer or so of border line, with little or no success.   Everywhere you here sirens and see immigrants scaling the fences.   We saw right in front of our eyes a truck come out of the port and past the security checkpoints only to park ...

So it has definitely been a full day! Greg and I crashed last night a little after midnight to wake up bright and early around 7am. We met up with Brian (remember, our angel?) and headed straight to the Acropolis. We passed a McD's and a KFC on the way (wierd how America has its fingerprints everywhere) and arrived when the park opened. It was a beautiful day, and we spent a solid 2.5 hours exploring the sites of ancient Athens! The Parthenon ...

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 sleeping, but I feel like if I hadn't of been paying attention to the views ...

At some point before or after Carnaval, I realized I'd rejected the community. Then, my camera was stolen. Thirdly, I was wet and completely miserable in my tent. I got the feeling that people can fly, soon after that. Little silly Simona invited me to stay with her. And finally, a pleasant-looking gang of four stray dogs marched their way down a dusty, empty street in an agricultural Greek town on a sunny day. The leading three looked street-wise and slick, but the ...