Hotel Oniro Athens

Chris and Milly left on Friday night – very sad to see them go, although we will see them in Auckland at Labour Weekend. We stayed the night near the airport at the Prince of Lillies – nice people but very hard single beds and a strange shower. We were up at 4.00am to be at the airport by 5.00am as required. The check in staff did not turn up till well after this though, despite a very long queue.

On board the Aegean Air cabin crew, who are ...

... rural areas. Following the end of the military rule, Athens grew too fast without any true planning. Rich visited Athens in 1983, when it was going through its major growing pains of pollution and general sprawl. Metropolitan Athens is now home to nearly 40% of the population of Greece.
However, the 2004 Olympic games brought a renewed sense of pride and planning back to Athens which is now much cleaner, safer, and more enjoyable ...

... quite comfortably into Athens. It's a wonderful city. I've become more sorry about my unfortunate visit here with the Navy in 2000. At that time, this city just seemed rough and hostile to Americans with little to commend it. My experience this summer couldn't be more different. This city is very friendly and safe with amazing sights and great food. It's got lots of great pedestrian streets on which to navigate, and tourists and residents seem to ...

... stray dogs in ahtens and they all have there neighborhoods and the people take care of them and they eat like royalty, gourmet meals from the restaurants in town. There were several sleeping outside our hostel. Our hostel was amazing. there is a whole community of people there and it made it very difficult to leave it. we went out and walked around a bit and then had chrsitmas eve dinner right at the base of the acropolis, the most important piece of architecture in the ...

... is Seamus Heaney and also that he got to meet Seamus when he was last in Athens as he was involved in the translation of a book of his works. By the end of the night he was promising to translate the book I'm planning to write about my travels into the Greek language in preparation for the Greek market. Imagine me and Seamus Heaney, a noble prise winner being spoken about in the same conversation ;0). His youngest daughter joined us after awhile so before long we had half the family ...

... mythological sites of Atlantis, the debating grounds of Plato and Socrates, the mountain of the gods, and perched monasteries. Along the way, by train by foot by bus by ferry by car and sitting, we would catch up with conversations on our lives, the American election, life in America, spirituality, and more and eat desserts and ice cream and enjoy beautiful views, and walk through canyons and forests, and explore Greek culture, both ancient and present. Here we go.

... Hi Geoff why did you call me? James You have to get to the internet now, check your email and log on to the sydney uni site so you can put your medical placement preferences in and book an interview time! You've got to do it in the next hour! Um well I can't because I'm at the airport and theres no internet here because I'm through security. Ok give me your password and we'll do it. (end of interesting bit) So I gave my password and ...

... and all the places we have visited here though. Italy seems like weeks ago, but it was also really great. By this time tomorrow i will be somewhere over the Oceans flying back to Melbourne and (back to my own bed - yay!). Talk to you all soon. Signing out, eurotrAsh PS - after writing this pod last night, i went back to the hotel room and was as dark as a thunder cloud. I had a terrible sleep and woke up early determined to try and take as many of ...

... trying to keep warm, and when Adam went up close to take pictures for me, one of the puppies ventured out from under the table and cuddled up under Adam's feet! It was very cute. So I asked Adam if I could take them home, and he said no, so I cried. So after about 6 hours of walking, we were exhausted, but we did book our ferry ride to Crete, which is where we will be heading tonight.

... hotel. While she cornered the dockmaster, he came over to me with half-packed luggage and said, “’ould you ‘ook a’ter ‘is?” I interpreted that to mean that he wanted me to watch his luggage while he went back to his girlfriend/wife and tried buying a ticket. I agreed, which got Dianne very nervous. “If it’s a choice between their luggage and getting on this boat, we’re getting on the boat,” she said. I had to ...