Miramare Hotel Voula

... ancient Greece until the early afternoon, when we headed to the train station to buy tickets for that night´s trip to Patras. After the train station, we headed across town to the Archeological museum, which lightened our wallet to the tune of 12 more Euros. After 3 hours in the museum, we Greeked out and headed back to the hostel to retrieve our bags and have supper. Following that, it was back on the metro red ...

... and talking about all of the amazing things that we did. We are very thankful. I hope you enjoyed my long recap of the trip and here are the links to the photos if you want to see more! Athens: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2 074098&l=3ee18&id=35805139 Santorini: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2 074101&l=acb5b&id=35805139 Rest of Santorini and then Ios: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2 074106&l=47173&id=35805139

... way, it's rude if you don't ride in the front seat with the driver) and asked where we wanted to go again. Megan said train station, and hoping that pantomiming would work a bit better I decided to use the universal train sign. I blew the imaginary whistle and said "Chooo, Chooo" which the driver understood immediately and laughed as we continued on down the street to our station. Another thing I noticed was that a lot of people here carry worry beads wherever they ...

... which if fine but the bathroom and the kitchen are grotty and disgusting. I made one attempt in cleaning the kitchen which resulted in Serge bursting into the lounge room and kissing my hand saying thankyou thankyou thankyou. The day after arriving, Thursday that is I set off to have a look around Athens, on my own as Dave was not due to arrive until Friday, a fact that doesn't bother me at all but which shocked and surprised a few family members when I told them. I ...

... mainland Greece, visiting a lot of ancient archaeology sites. Today, she's adjusting to the time difference, but first we took the Metro into town from the airport (Toronto SO needs an airport train), picked up her Museum Pass from the Canadian Institute, found our hotel (the Attalos on Athinas Street, with a view of the Acropolis from our balcony), lunched in the Plaka and took a brief look at the Agora (free ...

... night that i had expected in Greece. this morning we had to get up at 6:00 again to get to the airport on time for our flight to Cairo. Greece has been nice. Delphi was great and Mykonos is just amazingly beautiful and fantastic. our journey in Europe is over. these past +4 months have flown by and i am sad to leave but so excited for Egypt. it should be awesome!

... seat (even though I had one reserved) and it was frighteningly rickety and, once again, unbearably hot. 110 degrees, to be exact. I also had run out of water. In my short time in Greece, I drank more water than I usually drink in a full week! Four hours later, we FINALLY arrived in Patras, and I followed some backpaking girls who seeemd to know what they were doing. They showed me where to check in for the ferry ride, and said they would see me later. I paid the 30 ...

... the military band was ready to go. Next thing we know the bells are clamoring, and these guys in long robes with long beards to match start processionaling out of the church. Followed by - get this - the Archbishop of Athens! At least that's what we figured. He had his own body guards and everything. So we followed the processional to what seemed to be this dude's living house building thing with crazy flags and ...

... a large room, air con, tv, and our own bathroom. It even included breakfast, the owner was a very nice lady who spoke excellent English. This place was amazing for the price. It even had a rooftop patio. We got the most incredible view of the Acropolis, especially when it was lit up at night. Even our room balcony got a view of it. We wanted to see the Acropolis again, we hoped the scaffolding would be off of it this time. We heard it was supposed to be removed in time for the ...

... was about an hour long as we docked back in the port of Igoumentsa. From here, we boarded our private coach that would take us all the way to Athens. We drove along the coastlilne along a very steep and windy road for probably the first 2 hours with such incredible views of the Mediterranean Sea. The winding road coupled with last night's heavy partying seemed to get the best of some people. I noticed some had bags over their mouths ready to throw up. Our ...