Athens Day 2 and 3
Trip Start
May 13, 2008
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Trip End
Jun 26, 2008
Athens,
Greece
Monday, May 26, 2008
Jill remembered the Grand walkway that runs around the base of the Acropolis and wanted to walk it again with Jennifer.The walkway boarded the grassy wooded area that runs into the side of the rocky southern side of the acropolis. The walk eventually took us in a circle back to the Plaka where all the greek shops and touristy resturant cafes are located. We walked from the Acropoli Metro stop to Monastariki square where we bought some fresh cherries, strawberries and tomatoes for our greek salad dinner. We also went back to our favorite bakery and bought spanacopida, a cheese pastery and a chocolate corrisant. We completed our walk hitting Syntegma Square and walking back to our hostel. Getting back, we got to go to the super market to buy the rest of the ingrediants for our greek salad dinner including a bottle of wine. Back to the hostel, we cut up our dinner and had a nice picnic outside on the balcony of our little dorm room and shared the bottle of white wine. The hostel had the internet and as we had not been able to really get online since Aswan, Egypt, we logged on for a bit. By the time we were done cleaning up off the internet we were very tired and just got right into bed.
The next day we checked out of our hostel even though our Greek Island tour didn't start til the following morning at 6:30am at Pierias, the port town just outside of Athens where all the Ferries leave from. Jill had been there before when she visited Crete and we decide we would just stay up all night before getting on the metro to the port at 5:30am and save on hostel costs.We got to leave our bags in the lobby for the day and pretty much just chilled out all day. First we decided to return to the Temple of Zeus to go inside the gates to get a better view. We then walked around the Plaka and decided to walk up to Omonia, the hostel district that Jill thought she stayed in before when she was last in Athens. Making it there we were starting to get very hungrey for dinner so we bought gyros for dinner and got to test out happy hour at the rooftop bar.
We watched the sun set over the acropolis with our drinks and stayed in the bar til the pub crawl started. We met some cool people and found out pretty fast that the 'Pub Hop' only consisted of one bar. But while we were there Jill overheard a girl mention Tri Delts and she met a fellow Tri Delta sister at a bar in Athens. She went to school at a place in Georgia and introduced Jill to another Tri Delt from a different she met at her hostel. What a small Tri Delta world :) We followed the girls at an attempt to find another fun bar but abandoned the plan as they were wondering pretty far from Athen's Backpackers were our bags were. As we wondered back to the first bar we couldn't any of the people we were with before, it was 2am and we didn't know what we were going to do til 5:30 in the morning. As the partying all night plan wasn't working as well as we planned we remembered what some Aussie friends we had made at the hostel had offered us. They were two brothers and one of the bother's girlfriend traveling together. They said they booked 3 beds but the couple was going to share a bed and offered us the other one if we wanted to crash for a bit. This seemed like the best plan as the alternative was hang out with our bags at the 24hr McDonalds. It was really nice even though we had to share a bed and our alarm came sooner then we expected. Thanks Clancy and Jermima!!
