We had great luck for our transportation to Greece. First, our flight was supposed to be 10 1/2 hours to Amsterdam but was just over 9 hours! I (Leisha) did get sick though :( Threw up 3 times...twice on the plane and once at the airport in Amsterdam. I think it was just motion sickness because now I'm fine. Then our flight to Athens was on time. When we hopped off the plane, we literally bought a bus ticket and were riding our bus into town within 10 minutes. Once we got into Athens, however, is a different story!
We asked several people at bus stops how to get to the street where our hostel was and the first person told us one bus...he was wrong. Once we got off we'd basically made a circle. Some tourists "familiar with Greece" gave us a map and pointed us in a direction...also wrong...FINALLY we ended up in some cool alley ways with little restaurant cafe deals and one of the owners KNEW where to go and gave clear directions AND showed us on the map. 3 hours later we arrived at the hostel.
It's clean and pretty nice for what you get. We're at the Pella Inn in Athens. The roof has a view of the Acropolis and other major landmarks. So once we got here we decided to do dinner on the roof. What we didn't know is that in Europe people don't really get up and going before 8/9 o'clock and you eat lunch around 3 and dinner around 9! It was 11 before the BBQ was done on the roof and we were starving. Met some nice people though. Leo is from Argentina, just turned 30, and gave himself a birthday gift. He's been to Madrid, Barcelona, Italy, now Greece. Michael and his brother are from Toronto, Canada, taking a vacation together before Michael starts college this year. Laura and her boyfriend are from Barcelona taking a few days vacation before they do some archeology type work somewhere here in Greece.
Dad, they have STARBUCKS here! :) Haha, it's so hot though it honestly didn't sound good this morning but I took a picture. So random to be walking down streets clear across the world and then see Starbucks, it wasn't even really in a high touristy area.
It's 8:00 AM here, going to go start our first REAL day!!!
Unfortunately, I don't know how to upload pictures yet but maybe from Randy's phone...
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Your story is hilarious...because it reminds me of our experience in Athens. NO ONE could give us directions to our hostel and we went in circles...with big, huge backpacks on in the summer heat. Ha! Glad you eventually made it to where you were headed... :)
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