After one day we are thinking we may just stay in Athens for our whole trip . . . this town is awesome! Athena and Zeus have welcomed us very nicely! Yesterday after leaving our blogging audience we went for lunch at a little greek restaurant and had a huge meal. As advertised Steph had her Greek Salad and I had a solid Gyro . . . and I never thought a Gyro could taste so good. There is so much Greek food to try it is hard to believe that we only have a week here to get a taste [View Full Entry]

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Greece (continued) Some more pictures that didn't make the blog since we were cut off (financially) Enjoy:) ps...we love comments so please keep them coming! [View Full Entry]

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Today we went on a walking tour provided by our hostel. It was close to 100 degrees today and no matter how much water we drank, it wasn't enough. Our guide showed us the Temple of Zeus, the Royal Gardens, the changing of the guard at the Parliament building, the shopping streets, flea market, and the Plaka. We felt so bad for the guards at the Parliment building! They had to stand in their hot, thick uniforms and were not allowed to move for their entire 6 hour shift while tourists stood next to them and took pictures. Then they had [View Full Entry]

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Oh yes . . . that is right . . . they don't speak Spanish in Greece so llegamos does not mean anything here! At any rate, we made it here safe and sound to Athens and everything has worked out real smoothly so far. A few honeymoon perks . . . first we got upgraded to first class on our flight to NYC. Then when we arrived to Athens they upgraded us to a sweet room that has a huge balcony and a perfect view of the acropolis less than 200 yards away . . . it is AMAZING! The [View Full Entry]

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Greetings! Mark and I are currently in Meteora waiting for a train back to Athens. After leaving Corfu we headed to Nafplio, a port city on the mainland of Greece, a base to which we would day trip to Mycenae to see the "ruins"...or as I like to call them...foundations and a couple of rocks. Admittedly Nafplio was a bit of a touristy town and we left as soon as we were able. In Athens we got two bunks in the "Dungeon" at Students and Travelers Inn...it was an airless, windowless room with 5 bunkbeds and lots of stinky shoes...but for [View Full Entry]

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The trip from Igoumenitsa was quite an experience. Although the scenery was pretty amazing as we went along the Greek coastline the driving of other motorists and the bus driver was pretty dubious. Was beginning to wonder if we would arrive in one piece especially after seeing two cars passing vehicles in opposite lanes narrowly miss each other returning to their own lane and seeing the bus driver talk on his cellphone (despite having a handsfree kit) and smoke a cigarette all while navigating tight bends through various mountains, we did eventually arrive in Athens at about 111pm. Upon a [View Full Entry]

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We arrived at the Orly Paris Airport at about 2:30 in the morning. We found the right ticket counter and sat down on some benches near it so we could jump up in 2 hours and get right in line. Christine listened to her Ipod and sewed 3 more patches onto her bag while Kim watched "Hairspray" on her Ipod. We didn't want to sleep because we were afraid that we might miss our flight or be stolen from. The 2 Canadian girls finally showed up after getting off at the wrong stop and trying to take another bus that didn't [View Full Entry]

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Well, we had a slight change of plans after leaving Egypt. It turns out that it would have cost a fortune to fly in and out of Jordan and it was too late to organise visas to get through Syria to Jordan, so we decided to skip it. We were only really going there to see Petra anyway and we couldn't justify spending that amount of money. So, we jumped on the internet and googled flights anywhere out of Cairo and picked the cheapest. So the next morning (at 4am!) we flew to Athens. We arrived at 6.30am jumped on the [View Full Entry]

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Dad and Caitie left me on Naxos Island three days ago to make their journey back to Montreal. As the Naxians sympathetically noted, "the holiday, it is over, ne." Sadly for them, it is, though I'm sure they had many happy reunions once back on Canadian soil. For my part, I took my last two solo days to do things Caitie didn't like - hiking Mt. Zeus, the highest peak in the Cyclades (at 1001m this is only impressive if you leave out the height) and vainly trying to rid myself of tan lines on a nude beach. And of course [View Full Entry]

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Overview of our trip: Day One - July 7th Leave Monday morning July 7th. 12:30 flight from Binghamton to Philadelpha. US Airways flight 4467. Arrive 1:29 pm Depart Philadelpha 4:30 pm US Airways flight 758 Overnight flight. Day Two - July 8th. Arrive at Athens airport 9:25 am Will be met by Paul of athenstaxi by the baggage claim at 9:25. Leave for private two day tour. Will drive to Sparta, visit Mystra and Sparta, spend the night in Sparta at Hotel Menelaion, phone number 27310-22161 and 27310-22162. cell phone for athenstaxi is 01130-697-203-0853 if call fr [View Full Entry]

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