Hotel Lion Athens

... then fall asleep to only wake up with this big greek man practically sitting on ym head he was so close like there are 4 thousand BENCHES and other places to sit WHY WHYYYYYYY do the freaks ALWAYS come to me! I just laughed and was like ok that is my cue to GET UP and go SHOPPING!!!!!!

I then met Thanos at 12 we went for coffee till 1:30 then back to my old watering hole the James Joyce Irish pub for lunch! I treated him to lunch and beers as ...

I'd read several places that watching the changing of theguard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is a fun, brief activity, much like itis in Washington, D.C. or London. The soldiers wear tradtional uniforms andmarch in a peculiar way (peculiar if you were trained by a U.S. Marine drillinstructor, at least).

So, since it was on my way to the Byzantine museum thismorning, I decided to time my journey to watch the ceremony. As I ...

... and some more Giros. Once we settled into the hotel, a group of us walked around to find some dinner. We ate at a Greek place called Non Stop, which was great and I would definitely recommend it. Paula got pulled into one restaurant where the guy took her out the back and showed her a half a pig and a pile of potatoes and he said we could have as much as we wanted. It was quite funny. On our walk home at around 10pm ...

... food! My first taste of lamb! Yay!! Poor baby sheep.. We ate and I had some Mythos (awesome Greek beer) and a Freddo Cappucino. We also had a sampling of traditional Greek desserts. The best was Tsoureki Ekmek! Amazing! Rediculously good. After lunch Kostas and I walked back to the Metro station and we headed back to the airport. When we got there we went to the luggage claim place and he sorted out my luggage. While waiting for my flight to Mykonos I gave Kostas my ...

... I had no idea even existed. I also didn't know they actually do pottery in the shape of people's heads. A jug in the shape of a detailed baby's head is exactly as creepy as you think it is, by a factor of about a million. Another thing I wasn't aware of was the statues of geometric figures they have. Those who suffered classics will know about how the first pottery was geometric, and then they started to incorporate human figures but they were made of triangles and very pointy ...

... it hard to come up with the words to describe this place. It is really unlike anywhere that I've been in Europe. I thought it would be like Western Europe, maybe a little grittier, but it really isn't. Just when you think you knew something about it, you are completely contradicted. I thought it would be like Rome, only amplified, but it's more like Rome, but on a much smaller scale. Only as far as sights/ruins go. The ruins and temples and things are a lot more spread out here ...

... Your" is misspelled. J I bought a postcard and a small blue glass "evil eye" from a small shop where the proprietor was kind enough to help me learn to say "Kalimera" for good morning. He claimed to be impressed with the way I said it and asked if I were Greek. I said, "Yes!" Then put my hand over my heart and added, "In my heart." He laughed and that made me laugh, too.

... ride consisted of 3kms pushing the bikes uphill and the other 2kms on the bikes - and that was all down hill. We biked for about 8kms and decided that we were both quite tired and needed coffee and some breakfast, so we stopped and got some fresh feta cheese, tomatoes, bread and olives but decided that we would actually not stop to eat as we could feel the sun getting hotter so decided to push on and try and get to the first camp site. I need ...

... soup. Our 1st attempt with making greek food, haha.








We managed to walk around in the city center area, around Syntagma Square after taking a bus, and guessing where to jump off.
Most of the attractions were closed, so we might as well spend our time hunting for souvenirs.






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We took a long way, and walk ...