Mistral Hotel Piraeus

... so bad that we can not put them on a public website where young people might be reading. So, we will keep those for another time.

We loved the food in Greece, but after 10 weeks we did find it a bit monotonous. Outside of Athens, you simply don’t find any variety of food except Greek food. We would have given a lot of money to find a Chinese, Thai, or other such different cuisine just for a change.

In many of the smaller islands, all of the restaurants use the same ...

... also white and very wide, over their upper body they wear a black and gold tunic with long bits at the back, thick creamy white tights with black tassels behing the knee and red studded shoes with a large black pompom on the toe. Hope you can picture them! The actual ceremony is also very odd and involves a lot of kicking and very long strides, all done in slow motion and in perfect harmony. Once the new guards are in place by ...

... guy kept going into the same pocket, the only thing in there was my antibacterial. Silly boy. After walking around for a long time, the only thing I wanted to do was find a man who Emily and Jessica met earlier in the summer. We did a little bit of searching and we found Tom. Tom is from Ireland, his family was killed and he was super nice. I have lots of photos. After meeting Tom we had to rush ...

... and houses the Parthenon, the temple of Athena Nike, and the Temple of Olympian Zeus. It is a true testament to the Golden Age of Greece. It was easily over 100 degrees Fahrenheit today, so while the sights were wonderful, it was miserable to be traveling the city instead of relaxing by the beach like I did the first day. Oh well, the sights were breathtaking and I did enjoy my time in Greece, though a few more beach days would have been nice. ...off to our final port in Croatia!

... drink. We noticed a gorgeous man sitting behind us who greatly resembled Brad Pitt...Seriously, no joke the resemblance was ridiculous. He definitely knew we were talking about him the entire time and Nina was even bold enough to take a picture of him. I can't wait to post that one... We're about to go out in Athens and tomorrow morning we leave for Mykonos. Erica and Nina promise to post new items very soon. Get ready!

... when the bus took a completely different route to the port than I thought it would and I got all disoriented. But again, nice old men reassured us, in pantomime, that we should stay on the bus and we'd see the marina soon. And of course, they were right. After a few wrong turns walking to our boat - it was hard to see how to get to the end of the dock! really! - we were successfully boarded on the EasyCruiseOne and settled into ...

... passing across the top pf Athens to find somewhere on the east coast to stay - which means we'll be pretty close to the airport tomorrow morning. We had thought that the drive along the Gulf of Evia, north of Athens would be another scenic trip, but no! For a start, its all freeway driving - very fast! And the sides and median strip of the freeway are all heavily planted, so what views of the coast there might have been are all obscured. And then this area seems to be fairly ...

... in the situation. We met up with the tourleader and other group members at supper time and went out to the Plaka district for supper and drinks. The food and beer are excellent and I am thankfull that we walk just about everywhere or else my pants may not fit by the end of the trip. Today we toured the Akropolis. Unlike Rome you can't touch anything and everything is ropped off so you can't touch it, nether the less it is still very incredible. We ...

... drinking a full bottle of rum, we were heady after our experience of spending winter in Greece. Our journey began in Athens, a city that owes its existence to the Acropolis, and to Athena, the Goddess of Wisdom. Athena was said to have prevailed over Poseidon, the God of the Sea in selecting the site for the city. From Athens we would proceed to the ancient oracle of Delphi, spend Christmas at the soaring monasteries of Meteora, soak in the healing waters of Thermopylae, and ...

... had as well sattelite TV ( yay English movies!)and one of the most modern shower/massage set ups I have ever seen! We spent our days wandering the alleyways of Old Town, had a day trip to ancient Lindos and its ruined Mycaenean acropolis, and enjoyed an afternoon on the neighbouring beach. In the evenings we dined on some of the most incredible food thus far in Greece and spent hours planning our next chapter of our journey...Turkey. Europe has been an incredible beginning to this journey ...