Oceanis Attica

... abducted by Hades into the underworld. Her mother Demeter rescued her, but was horrified to discover that Persephone had eaten six of the pomegranate seeds Hades had craftily offered her. Consequently, Persephone was permitted to stay half the year above ground, but then she had to go back to the underworld for six months out of the year. The modern legend is that if you eat the seeds of the pomegranate while you are in Greece, like ...

Today's intercultural excursion was a trip to the Greek doctor's office. After I failed to make it through more than an hour of teaching this morning, Sage and Lovely Lithe encouraged me to cancel class and get some medical help. Lithe drove me to see a private English-speaking doctor. Doctors' offices in Athens are often located in residential apartment buildings. There's a dentist who works on the floor above my apartment, for instance. Sometimes I can hear teeth being ...

Athens has a LOT to offer, but there is so much more to see and hundreds of islands to explore. I don't have enough time this trip to make it to all the islands of my choice(I will DEFINITELY be returning!), but I did go for the day to Aegina on Wednesday. My Canadian friends Hillary and Melissa met me and we made our way down to the ferry at Pareus. Of course, there was supposedly a strike that day of the ...

... like watching high stepping Andalusian horse dressage. Certainly different to our eyes. Tall boys too. Off tomorrow evening to Barcelona, then on to Toulouse and then to meet with Yaelle and Olivier near Cahors. Quite excited about getting together again. More on the blog then. We have really appreciated and enjoyed your emails and comments on the blogs. Only hope we can continue to keep you interested.

... train ride. If we didn't know that for the next day, we could have missed our flight! Anyways, we got the suitcase out of storage and took a shuttle bus over to the cargo department of British Air. They redirected us to some one else, who redirected us to someone else and so on. We finally ended up at Aegean, who shipped the suitcase for about 97 Euros (expensive, but still a lot ...

... a little fountain to sit by, but we were surrounded by heroin junkie who were shooting up in the street... safe We got to Plaka through the flea market, which consisted of millions of pirate DVDs and useless junk. We walked up the hill to the Acropolis and found out we could get in for free as we were students! Result! But yeah it was packed and full of tourists groups. you could see across the whole ...

Because we had a good 3 days in Athens before our tour of the Greek Islands were to start, our next two days in the city were more relaxing. We woke up again fairly late just in time to catch breakfast and took our time getting ready before we left the hostel. Some of our clothes were still drying from the night before and now that it was sunny and quite warm, we took some time to wait for them to finish drying. Jill remembered the Grand walkway that runs around the base of the ...

... the Agora would have been 2000 years ago. This is our last night together - Lee and Andy head back to NZ tomorrow; Chelle, Trevor, Tina and Chris head out for a week's touring round the Greek mainland; and Janie and Andrew are off early on a 1 day tour to Delphi before heading for a short visit to London on Sunday. Its' all a bit sad - but we've had a great time together and every one is keen to have another holiday together next year!

... high. I love how they have the prices tax included too. Monisteraki is full of flea markets. Not bad deals so i bought a bunch of shirts for family and a friend. Me and a friend then took off for Santorini for two days. Beautiful place with a nice beach overlooking the sea. It wasn't as nice as the beaches in Athens but sitting out on the beach at night ...

... in Santorini every morning for breakfast The Greeks being mad at the French for building a bridge in Greece and charging the Greeks to cross it. Something that should have been annoying but was quite cool: Every church that was painted blue and white Least Valuable Player: Michael the bus driver Well, I am in Romania now, so time for a WHOLE new culture! Will post tomorrow with pics.