Flight into Athens

Trip Start Jul 06, 2008
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Trip End Jul 17, 2008


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Flag of Greece  , Attica,
Tuesday, July 8, 2008

So I arrived in Athens around 10 am and met up with Gus.  We wandered around Athens for a couple hours looking at stores, getting cranky from not having slept in a while, ate feta, tomato, and olive sandwiches and drinking FRAPPE!!! So this frappe, Gus wouldnt describe it to me..only "that i needed to experience it for myself".  I get this foamy iced drink and automaticaly, like any Westerner who lacks control of instant gratification to a degree, i start slurping away at it. He stops me and tells me to start from the frothy top and work my way down like a true Greek. So i go for it. Wow...what an intense coffee flavor..i thought I was getting an instant ulcer!! hahah. but so delicious. I made it last about 10 more minutes while we wander around the Omonia district, wandering in and out of random ruins that jsut spring up at the end of alleyways :)

He shows me Athens University, part of it, and he obliges me by showing me a Starbucks. I took a couple pictures like a good little tourist and we sat down and ate our sandwiches and 2L bottles of water like anyone in any starbucks in the world would do.  4.50 EUROS FOR A LATTE!!! Are they nuts! thats like 8bucks!! Now that's rediculous!

Anyway, we realize we better get going if we're gonna get back to the airport for our flight to Bucharest so we set out and get to our terminal with about 15 seconds to spare bf boarding. eeek!  We get on this tiny, 2 engine aegean plane and set off for a 2 hour flight where we GOT A MEAL!!! I didnt get one for a 6 hour flight from CA to NY!!! not even peanuts!

GO GREECE!
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mattvito
mattvito on Jul 8, 2008 at 01:39PM

Dun da dun dunnnnnnn dun da dunnnnnn
Haha the first thing I thought of was the Indiana Jones chicken plane

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