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Published: June 11th 2006
Mycenae
"our house has everything/baths, blah blah... Remember that, those in NW 5?Before I continue- to answer my father's question about what I am eating, here is my meals that I have bought since London:
Day 1: Airplane breakfast (luxorious), Lunch: bread and hummus Dinner: bread and hummus, pepsi lime
Day 2: Bread, water,
etc. Bread, water, I had some cookies, and I had some yogurt, but mostly bread and water. I bought nutella today though, I am excited. But I don't mind the food, I just think I need to have some fruit but its hard to find.
Oh wait- I did have one good meal with the tour group- mousaka vegetarian for 5 euros, it was really really good. Anyways-
Mykines was very old and also full of tourists that came on nice buses. Those of you in Strickland's class know that this was where the Oresteia took place. After seeing the ruins, I walked back to the main town with my pack about 20 minutes. It was still relatively early, around 2:00 so I wanted to go back to Athens so it would be easier to head north the next day. After asking two people where the train station was, I almost gave up when I found it, very small and deserted until a Greek came by, and said "My friend, we are... working on it and it is closed." So I went to the bus station, again asking two people because it wasn't a bus station, it was a little store run by an old woman. She directed me to a bench on the other side of the street, but I wasn't sure and was shocked when a bus to Athens actually did come to pick me up.
Here's the fun part! Mr. Snyder, you told me it doesn't rain in Greece, but when I got to Athens there was a real storm, with lightning and everything. To get to my hostel, I got on a city bus from the bus station, not knowing where to get off but I found it in Omonia, then I took the metro from Omonia to Syntagma, the main square. It was really pouring when I got out, it was around 6:00 so I decided it can't be far to the hostel (a different one than the first one) and I would walk. I walked the wrong way through the National Gardens, which were deserted with the occasional creepy person, then I came out the wrong end, turned around (by this time I was soaked except I had a poncho, but my pack was soaked and my guidebook with the map is still wet today)
I found the street on the map, but the hostel was off the map and I got hopelessly, irrevocably lost until, after almost giving up, I found the street and got to the hostel! Inside the hostel was a very international crowd, two young Canadians, a German, a Brit, another Canadian from Toronto, three Argentinos and a Spaniard. I surprised myself by actually having a conversation (more listening than speaking) with the latinos. Now that it doesn't matter, after the AP test I spoke the best spanish of my life. We watched the World Cup Argentina vs. Cote d'voire.
Today I got up and took a long bus from Athens to Kalambaka, home of the Meteora rocks. I am a bit blue because I paid too much for this room and I'm not sure how the logistics of my trip to Bulgaria are going to work out, its nothing serious but its just about how many days I will spend in Greece. Please leave comments, I'm lonely! Tommorow is apparently a national holiday so I don't know when I will write again. I'll add pictures later and I miss all of you but I'm having fun (but I've already gone over budget.)
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Dad
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Don't worry about money
I got your message after sending one. Please do not worry about money. If something costs more than you think it should do not worry about it. YOu are naturally frugal, as am I, but you have plenty of money in the bank and don't worry if some days are more expensive than others. Love, Dad