Arrival: Athens

Yesterday was the first day that I didn't want to/was too tired to write a blog entry. It wasn't a fabulous day.

The day started at 4:30am and without breakfast (our choice but we couldn't muster an appetite so early). Our bus to the airport picked us up at 5am and despite stopping at a few other hotels to pick up guests, we were still at the airport for 5:17am. We located our Oshawa friends and chatted with them while waiting to board. There were no seats available at the boarding gate so had to stand (not the end of the world but a little annoying).

Our flight was only 35 minutes long (shortest one I've been on, I think, other than a flight at Buttonville airport when I was a girlguide) and they still managed to get everyone a chocolate croissant (that was good although came in an aluminum package that said "7 days", lol).

We arrived to Athens just after 7am. We couldn't check in to our next place until noon and we had all our luggage with us so we killed time at Cafe in the airport. It was a long few hours. We looked over the Athens map to plan our next few days and Jeff had a Greek coffee (it was way too strong - he had just wanted a regular coffee). 

We left the airport at 11:30am to go to the subway station. We took the subway quite a ways and then walked a fair bit to the new place; it definitely is in a residential type area. There are lots of apartment buildings, although no more than about  10 floors at most.

We met Evita, our host.  We learned she is also staying in the apartment with us (it's her home). We weren't expecting that. We thought we rented her apartment privately. We were disappointed because we really would have preferred our  own space and privacy to hangout (our only private space is the bedroom - not comfortable to sit).  Evita is very nice though; we just were planning on something different. Not how we wanted to end our trip. We are trying to make the best of it. 

We had a nap as we were hot and pooped, then went exploring. We didn't get too far as it was too hot out.

We found food and water, both of which we needed badly.

We headed back to Evita's and chatted with her for quite some time (maybe a couple of hours?). I showed her pictures of home and the snow we had in February. 

We went out to find dinner and stopped at a burger place we had seen on the way to Evita's. It was cheap and good.

We got lost on our way back from dinner (in the dark) and being so tired and sore made being lost really unpleasant, but we made it.

We then went to bed after watching a Seinfeld episode on our ipad. The traffic outside was super loud and it was so hot that I had a really crummy sleep. I kept a cool cloth on me throughout the night to help.

Yesterday was the first day I really wanted to go home.