July 22, We boarded the ferry and secured some pretty sweet seats on the deck in the shade. We had plenty of goodies to make this trip a success, we just had no idea where we would go once we arrived at the port in Athens. About ten minutes from departure a young man asked James, "Did you learn any Greek while you were on the island?" James said "no" and they began conversing. Five minutes into the conversation we discovered he speaks Tija's language and he's from Serbia. He, in fact, was making a portion of the trip we were on - from Santorini to Athens, to Tessaloniki, Greece, to Sophia, Bulgaria, to Belgrade, Serbia, and finally to Banja Luka, Bosnia. We were in for a ride. He said he would help and direct us
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