we slept in. ugh. we had to. i think we got up about 10 actually, that's what time i set the alarm for and it was only a few minutes before that when i actually got out of bed. johnny stayed in a few more minutes and i ran and took a shower and did all that great stuff. we made breakfast - coffee and croissants, maybe some cereal, and a yoghurt... then grabbed our stuff for the day and ran to the metro station. we had gotten the directions from the woman in the tourist booth the day before and [View Full Entry]

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Ack! i got up at 7:40 but johnny didn't get up til a little late, after i got out of the shower. by the time we were both done getting ready and out the door we hadn't made the bus number 64 to the vatican city in time and as we got over near the stop (which we actually passed, and had to get off and walk back) it was after 9:00, when we were supposed to be there. :o( oh well - instead of doing the basilica at 9 and then the museums at 10:30 we changed the tickets [View Full Entry]

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apparently, the night before i was so tired i was in bed before johnn and while he was still up and doing something at the desk i got up, out of bed, tip-toed over to the door, looked out, mumbled something, mumbled something else when johnny asked me what i was doing and if i needed anything, and then trotted back tot he bed and got in again. i have no recollection of this. dammit! that's ok, johnny woke me up later that night talking in his sleep. i can't remember what the hell he said, but it was humorous nonetheless. [View Full Entry]

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ooooh, the bunks on the boat weren't half bad. johnny says he slept like a rock, i wasn't so fortunate, but not bad. i got up probably about 7:30 and wandered around the ship a bit barefoot, i thought i had left my flip-flops at fotis' house in athens and was not happy about that... i went downstairs to the lounge area and was quiet on account of all the people sleeping in random places. i wasn't prepared for the number of people who were simply foot passengers and were sleeping on benches, chairs, or the floor since they hadn't bought [View Full Entry]

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today was an easy day. after staying up late with fotis, his brother, and friends we got home and went straight to bed almost. i woke up at 5 in the morning with a splitting headache, as i always do when i have something to drink, and downed my usual 6 to 8 glasses of water (or until i almost burst) and went back to bed. woke up fine. we got up, got dressed, quickly stuffed the rest of our stuff in our bags and were out the door. a quick stop at the pastry shop and then we went [View Full Entry]

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oooooh my head is still spinning.... lol. we got up this morning and i swear, i never even heard fotis come in last night although he says it was about 3 in the morn when he did so. i was in the living room on the sofa and johnny was in the bedroom this time, i knew he would get better sleep in there cause it was quieter.... we got up and did our morning thing, although i was a little louder than i really should have been cause i didn't think fotis was here. (which i apologized for later) we [View Full Entry]

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Omg, my neck hurts. I got toasted today on our epic hike across athens and i'm paying for it. nothing like a good farmer's tan ;o) we got up about 8:30, same as yesterday, and probably same as tomorrow, and were quiet as we could be cause when i went to bed at 2:30 the night before fotis and his brother were still up in their room. i stumbled out of bed and plugged the computer in for a few minutes so it could charge in case we needed it today and then went to find my contacts so i could [View Full Entry]

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updated itinerary people: athens until 5.20 leave athens - train to patras, ferry to brindisi, italy 5.21 arrive in brindisi, train to roma 5.22. arrive in roma 5.25 leave in morning for daytrip to venice 5.25 take night train to besançon 5.26 arrive in besançon to stay with romain 5.29 leave for amsterdam to stay with marc until the 31st 6.02 leave for paris 6.06 leave for caen, normandy to stay with nico and stef 6.09 leave for cherbourg to catch ferry to rosslare, ireland 6.10 arrive in rosslare and catch train to dublin 6.11 arrive in dublin to meet sarah [View Full Entry]

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We got up about 8:30 this morning and got going, i had some stuff to organize and things to find, johnny got right up and got dressed within 15 minutes. i offered to do calisthenics with him but he declined and said maybe later - ha ha - i knew it wasn't going to be any time at all before he had second thoughts about this exercise crap while on holiday! :p Anyhoo, he got dressed in about 15 minutes and was waiting on my slow ass to get dressed i'm sure. i know, i'm such a girl, shut it. :) [View Full Entry]

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So - the rest of the story.... the taxi driver that we eventually did accept a ride from charged us 12 euros instead of 35a nd knew where the thing was, except he was either drunk or senile, or drunk and senile. ha ha... he honked at random people and screamed, almost ran over a few pedestrians and cursed in greek. when we finally got to where we were going he had to scream at a pizza delivery guy to move his moped and then pulled over muttering something or other.... after he nearly broke his arm trying to get my [View Full Entry]

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