Hotel Zafolia Athens

... and language skills while in the city<br>~Touring with Sia the Temple of Zeus's 16 huge columns (there once were 104) <br>~Learning much about the history (and art) of Greece&#8217;s Cyclades (chain of islands) via the very modern Cycladic Museum<br>~Shopping with Sia for food for breakfast, lunch and dinner at the local supermarket and cooking in a real kitchen (for the 1st time in a long time) a Greek dinner of Spanokopita, Tzatziki and Greek salad<br ...

... to the old olympic stadium, the temple of Zeus, and ancient agora. In the evening spend time chilling with a guy from my hostel in the local area around our hostel which had alot of nice restuarants and bars.<br>Day 52: Spent the last day in greece going to the Island of Aegina with the american girls i had met at the acropolis. It was about an hour by ferry from athens. On the island we ...

... beginning... no laminex, full drills - complete with an evacuation of my muster station! eep! - first ipm... the usual, important-but-annoying stuff that always happens as soon as you get on the ship. but once that stuff was done, it was no-holds-barred port madness! my first REAL day ashore (read: i actually got up in time to enjoy it) was in mykonos, greece. we arrived at 1am the night before and we were all super-excited about this spontaneous overnight. i had planned to go out ...

... airport, we were warmly embraced, and in true Greek style, taken at 11:00 p.m. for dinner. After "sleeping in" to adjust to the jet-lag, we picked up the tram map and tickets and headed into the center of Athens to re-acquaint ourselves with the city and its historic atmosphere. The "must see", "rush-rush" atmosphere of prior travels was absent. We came to relax. (In following weeks, Jim reminded Marianne several times of this trip's ...

... it was closed on Mondays. However she let me in and gave me a few minutes to stay there. I was happy to hear that and stayed there about 10 minutes... Kastro was well preserved and worth visiting. I visited a few other sites in Patras, but Kastro was absolutely the best of Patras. In the ferry port, there was a small soccor goods shop and the clerk talked to me. He was nostalgic about the European cup in 2004 and the Olympic Games held in Athens. The ferry port was farther ...

... issue. The arch is out in the open but the temple was behind a gated iron fence, which was predictably closed. After snapping some quick photos we headed back via metro to warm up in our hotel room. The remainder of the day was spent watching some television since they had 2 channels in English (CNN and BBC), playing some cards and resting up. We went for dinner to restaurant in the Plaka, the area of shops and restaurants at the ...

Last night in Copenhagen, the humidity must have been 100 percent. No hotel rooms have air conditioning in Copenhagen, because in all of human history this apparently has never happened before. So the guests of the hotel were all given fans, and we slept with the doors of our rooms open and with the fans blowing cool air ...

... here a week. So, my sons, my darlings, you could get a job in Greece quite easily but I think you have to take some sort of tourism course. She only speaks French and English. She is learning a few Greek words but I think I speak more than she does. The lady here who runs the restaurant is from Australia; she speaks French fluently and has been working here for three years. We forgot to tell you about Mykonos ...

... at your table. The restaurant was off the main strip so it was mostly locals eating there and the food was amazing. We had dolmades, traditional Greek salad, fried smelt, Greek sausages, and calamari. Of course we ended the dinner with a picture with the owner. We took the subway back to our hotel and by then, most of the shops were close and we were pretty tired from all the travelling ourselves so we called it a night.

... next hour debating Australian politics. It was mostly Rob and Erin going back and forth. Roz and Kevin had fallen asleep while I just listened intently. It was way too late to get into such a heated debate for me. Eventually, Rob and I left deciding to just call it a night. We left Kevin in there sleeping not wanting to wake him up. I would learn the next day that he stayed there until 4am not wanting to disturb his roomate Michael who was having one last night with Claire.