Hi all!
I'm sitting here in Athens waiting to take a walk through Ancient Greece today! But before I do that, I'll recap from Monday.
Monday basically consisted of lying on the beach. And getting an awesome suntan. And lying on the beach some more! It was great! Finally we were able to slow down for a day and just relax. We found a really gorgeous beach right by our hotel, and we walked down this cliff side path (covered with huge lizards) to get to it. The water was blue blue blue! I've never seen anything like it in my life! I wonder how polluted our water must actually be...because I could see the bottom of that water even when it was 15 feet deep! It was about 76 degrees without a cloud in the sky, it was gorgeous! The water was really flat and easy to swim in, and we swam out pretty far, but the entire time we could see everything on the bottom which was sweeeet!
After the beach, we went back to the hotel and got cleaned up, then went into the city to see the sunset. We watched the sunset from the dock at the harbor and went around looking for the restaurant that Mina had recommended for us. We were about to give up when we finally found it! I got spaghetti carbonara which was delicious, and we got a big thing of wine for 5 euro. We met some Canadians, which was cool too. At the end of the meal the waiters brought us all a free shot of Ouzo. Ouzo burns, but it was surprisingly sweet. After dinner Emily and I went in search of a cocktail, but every cocktail in Mykonos is 8 euro at least, so we gave up and bought Bacardi Breezers and an ice cream at this ice cream place.
Tuesday we were going to go to Delos, but it was 30 dollars and I really didn't want to pay that much. Delos seemed cool, but I'm not really sure what was there, so I couldn't justify spending the money. Alex ended up going and Emily and I just walked around this city for a while and took pictures. Mina drove us to her husbands office so we could drop off our luggage, and he was going to take us to our ferry at 2. She stopped at this really pretty outlook where you could see all the city and it was gorgeous! We dropped off our stuff and wandered around some gift shops. Once Alex was back we grabbed some lunch at a cafe on the water. I had a Greek salad that was really good. We went and got our luggage and Minas husband drove us to the ferry, which was actually the Titanic. It was soooo nice! We sat up on the outside part for a while and watched the Greek islands go by, and then we moved downstairs. We ended up getting a huge assignment done.
Now I guess I have to explain how I'm staying in Athens. Basically, we're doing this thing called Couch Surfing. There's a website: www.couchsurfing.org, and it has a network of people who are willing to open up their homes to you and let you stay for free. It sounds at first very creepy and very shady, but these people have had their locations and identities verified, and they have been reviewed by other couch surfers. Alex found Antonio on the website, and he's literally the king of couch surfing! He has hundreds of positive reviews from people all over the world who have stayed with him. The people that host surfers also surf themselves, and Antonio has couch surfed through Europe. It's a really cool way to see a city, because you can be shown around by a local and live the way they live. Antonio met us at the train stop and showed us back to his place. He has a cute dog named Jilda, and there are 2 other girls surfing here this week, one from Estonia, and one from Denmark. Also, there's a group of Americans coming tonight, so that should be cool! Basically his house is dedicated to couch surfing, he has a seperate room where the other two girls are staying, then in the living room two couches, a couch bed and two armchairs. It's really a neat way to help out travelers on a budget. I plan to couch surf in Vienna with Brittney, and we found a young couple our age who has agreed to host us.
So anyways, we got to Athens and got settled, and we were getting ready to go out when we realized that Em had been pickpocketed on the train here. She lost her camera and her wallet. So we spent that night getting that situation taken care of. Yesterday we got a late start, around 1, but we went for a walk up to the top of the hill where you get a great view of Acropolis. Then we went to Acropolis and went to the museum for a while. We went up and saw the Parthenon and came home around 6. Antonio made us dinner, which was really nice, and we made plans to go out to see the Parthenon at night and check out a bar. Unfortunately those plans are postponed until today, because we all ended up falling asleep around 9.
Now we're getting up and getting ready for our day today. First we're going to see the Temple of Olympia Zeus, then the Olympic stadium, and finally the National Archaeology museum. Big day ahead! Tomorrow I leave for London! I can't wait!
Jess
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
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