Hotel Atlantis Piraeus

... and this is another mistake we saw very often.<br><br>&#8220;Long Little Tongues with Sauce&#8220; What can you really say about that other than gross!? It took us a very long time to figure out what it was. However, they had translated the word &#8220;Linguini&#8221; (a common type of pasta) into English<br><br>&#8220;Drunken Tit Bits&#8221; Again, what can you really say about that? It was suppose to be &#8220;pork tidbits in a wine sauce&#8221;<br><br>Actually, the funniest ones ...

... are constantly finding parts of the old city so the metro is well worth a visit but we didn't have time. We did however see the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. It's very hard to describe the guards but I'll have a go (eventually you'll be able to see the pictures we took). They wear red tight fitting caps with a long black tassel on one side, a short white skirt which has 400 pleats in it, the sleeves ...

... stadium because Athens does not have a team. After the visiting the 2004 stadiums we went to see the 1896 Olympics stadium which was the first modern Olympics. After those visits we went shopping! Half the group was still a little woozy from Cairo (including myself) so we had to take it slow but it was an over all success. The only bad thing was that I felt someone twice go into my backpack but ...

... Piraeus, though I suddenly woke up when the bus lurched and everyone got off. In my half slumber, I exited the bus and then as it took off, I realized people were still on it and I had been dropped off in Athens instead of Piraeus. I decided to walk around the city, went through some slums and took a lot of photos of cool graffiti street art, played a game on a street corner (name?) where the dealer tosses around 3 cards and you have to guess which of the three was ...

... Greek friends I've made! Saturday, I stayed home and relaxed! It was wonderful! And then Sunday Kristina, Chrissy and I went to the Temple of Poseidon in Sounio. The Temple, which is still very much in tact, sits on top of a cliff. So at the base of the cliff, are several areas to go swimming. So we spent the afternoon swimming and playing volleyball on the beach with our new friend Carolina. We met her on the bus ride there. And afterwards, she ...

... with my luggage and my companions. Well, I found a recycling kiosk and some mini-marts, but no tickets. Frantic run back onto the bus where a nice old man saw my plight and offered to sell me 4 of his tickets (he had a little book of them). Thank you, thank you nice old greek man. That time, I did manage an "efkaristo", and a few breathless "thank you very much"es on top of it. Of course, it was time for another near-panic ...

... pom poms on the end of the clogs and actually they walk like a Russian guards. All very bizarre and entertaining, maybe it was a scary ploy against there formal enemies!! Who knows!! But good fun and drink time and yes we found a starbucks...another results and a hot chocolate later I could easily of slept...doh flight wasn't for another 9 hours. So how did we fill the time in??? Shopping and eating of course... I managed to bag ...

... and finally we arrive to the National Gardens, wich are very big and savage, like a kind of jungle in the heart of the city. Later we go to our favourite part of Athens: Plaka! I think I could be walking along these narrow streets for all my life and I'd never be bored. It's time to buy some presents for family and friends: baklava and melomakaronia (greek sweet pastries), the very well-known eyes of luck and bottles of ...

... with a chilly breeze. After a great sunset, we opt to sit in salon and while away evening trying various solar roof designs on our future house. After a long night on a lumpy mattress, I was up and on deck for sunrise breaking over Turkey, just 10 kilometers away. We are on the Aegean! Troy is just north of here. Odysseus and Achilles and Aristotle all hung out on the island Lesvos. Sappho was born here.

Ive had a tough day just lazing on the beach at Perrisa and reading my book today. Dont think I have ever really had a holiday where I have just literally sat on a beach for most of the day. was kinda cool. usually I need to be doing stuff ...but I quite liked just chilling and doing not much. Am in Santorini and it is really quite nice. not a whole heap to do really hence why I ended up just sitting on the beach. really barren landscape not just here but in the greek ...