White Castle Patras

By far the easiest entry into a country that I’ve encountered so far, and I don’t even know the alphabet here! What I had been expecting with every country so far, yet had been sorely disappointed not to find, was here! Getting off the boat and driving a bit down the street there was a tourist information office and a great store selling a map of the country. Two things I thought would have been ...

Destination 398<br><br>[Ferry]<br><br>After leaving the city of Piraeus without any roadmap and taking the overcrowded toll freeway to the connected Island of Peloponnes I left the busy freeway to go on along the main road. A beautiful coastline road along the ugly ...

... br><br>Arriving in Patra we soon hit a big problem. There were no ferries to Corfu, our planned rest-bite from the long ferry journey. We weren't happy. To put it mildly. We had checked, but something tells us we hadn't put in the right date. <br><br>With nothing else on offer we went to find an Internet cafe to check out our options. While Dino was being angry Shona went back to the ticket office to check if there was a ferry leaving tomorrow ...

... and everything inbetween has been such a noisence. I don't usually stress or break down or anything, but i can say that yesterday was almost the final straw. I was about 2 seconds away from kicking in some random dude's gyro stand down, i was going to kick his uncleared table full of plates (Because they're soo lazy, they never clean the plates or drinks off the tables anywhere, quickly) and then, i was going to proceed to curse at the top of my lungs while punching ...

... it is here that these men all FALL IN the sea. The Greek authorities then go out to rescue them and carry them on land. So these poor people get advantage of this, and they stay in Greece and try to find a job. The result is that we have so many refugees coming to Greece the last couple of years that it has become a huge problem.<br><br><br> <br><br><br>Anyway ...

We arrived in Patras and disembarked from our ferry. Picking a direction, we made our way to the port exit and then hiked over to the tourist offices for the city of Patras. We found very helpful information there, as well as 20 minutes to access the internet for free. This helped immensely as we needed to check on our lodging arrangements. After leaving the tourist offices, we headed to the ...

... wollen. Dort gibt es zwar zunaechst einige Verstaendigungsschwierigkeiten, da der Bahnbeamte ausser Griechisch recht wenig versteht, aber schliesslich finden wir auch die Bushaltestelle, an der der Bus zum Strand fahren soll. -- Eintrag by Susi--

From Delphi we headed to our hotel but drove a few hours, we stayed in Patmos on the Ionian Sea. The views during the drive were fantastic I couldn't stop taking photos the entire time. There were many people reading, or playing games, or sleeping, but I feel like if I hadn't of been paying attention to the views ...

I took the evening ferry from Bari to Patrai. I was glad to leave Bari and move on to my next destination. I rode through the port asking for directions to my ship, I only received a few nods and hand jesters until I finally found the ferry. The stern Greek crew directed me to the vehicle ramp where I parked my bike alongside the monstrous trucks moving in. I tied my bike to a heavy metal ring and hoped that the crew's smiles following their question about its value were ...

... It was the fourth of my five tent-spent Sundays that was full of rain. I was wet and restless for many hours in the night. And before that, my camera had been stolen. Until then, I would've said that one of the few good things about Greece was that you don't need to worry much about people stealing from you. But, somebody entered my tent when I had it near the university, and my camera went missing. The "kleftis" (thief) was, probably, either a Greek student or a ...