Day: 21
End of the third week and I still haven’t been robbed! Right after breakfast I left my hostel and left the country of Italy, to take a two hour flight to Athens, Greece. I arrived in Athens at about 2:30pm after the time change, I picked up my bag and found the metro to get into Athens central. On the metro ride into Athens I made a few New York friends, On older guy who was 72 and seemed like a university professor with all that he knew about Greece, he was on his fourth trip here. The other two were cute girls from Syracuse, a little younger than me, and studying in Salmaneca, Spain. The four of us just spent most of the 40 minute train ride talking about Greece, what there is to do here and our plans. When we all got off the train I asked the girls if they wanted to meet up later for a beer, they agreed, and since none of us knew anywhere in Greece we decided to meet in front of the Acropolis at 8pm.
I found my way to a hostel that came highly recommended from two English guys in Rome, it was a little more pricey (20 euro) than the other hostels in Athens (12-15 euro), but it is literally right on next to the Acropolis and I wasn’t going to have to take the metro all over town to look at the sights. I took a quick shower, changed my cloths and took my camera out to see what I could find in the few hours till my “date”. I was excited because here in Athens its warm enough that I can start to wear my sandals again. I found a few landmarks (all closed because it was already late in the day), almost got hit by a few cars, and had a couple of Gyro’s. All in all a fulfilling afternoon, I feel excited about being in a place that is new to me.
At around 7:45 I headed up the little hill to the entrance to the Acropolis, arrived about 5 minutes till and found a bench with a view of the Acropolis all lit up for the night.
8:00 A spectacular night, all warm and clear.
8:05 I took a couple of pictures of the walkway
8:09 New Yorkers sure take their time.
8:14 Where are they?
8:22 Damn
8:30 Fuck it, I just got stood up. I’m going to the Bar at the hostel.
Well the rest of the night involved drinking, dancing, drinking, ladies, drinking, more ladies, and finally wine and sandwiches in my room (It had 8 beds and I had it all to myself!) with my new friends Mihail, a Bulgarian-American over studying from NYU, and Christine, a North Carolinan bartender/website editor on vacation for 9 days. We listened to The Cure on my laptop, drank cheap wine, and just talked about whatever until about 3am when Christine realized her ferry left in 4 hours and Mihail had to get up in the morning and write a few papers for school.
Other than that one little downer of being stood up in front of one of the Seven Wonders of the World, the day turned out to be quite eventful.
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Those gals don’t know what they missed. You found a better time and had a fun time with new friends. Talked with Sammy at Islands and she says hello. I had forgotten what the Acropolis looked like, now I know. You really know how to find the Hostels, even the better ones. The pictures just keep getting better and better.
Unbelievable!! You must be having the time of your life. I can’t wait to see more of Greece.
New York girls aren’t trash. Trash get’s picked up! …oh…wait… you did pick em up. Whoops. Maybe they got hit by one of the cars. We can always hope for the best.
“get’s” should read “gets”. It is poor form to make a grammatical error while insulting the blogger.
Those little fricks…I bet they just couldnt find the place. Rob,”meet me in front of a huge wonder of the world”. Ladies, “okay, we will”… Later that night… Ladies(to each other), “Ugh what was that thing again, we were supose to go…some cafe called acrapuless…Uh I dont know, Oh well…tee hee”. Whatever. Anyway, looking pretty scruffy there Rob. Update on travel: sold the Lexus, bought a hybrid= Lexus 18mpg +350 per month, hybrid 50mpg +220 per month…it won’t take long to make up the diference. Ill let you know.
Rob… Just had a great idea. Was on ebay looking at weird stuff for sale. You should find the strangest possible thing from your travel. Bring it back and sell it on ebay. Or even a picture of the strangest thing. There are some crazy things selling on there. Someone is selling arizona rainwater for almost $300. There were 23 bids.
I’ll sell you some rainwater. real cheap.
fricken american students, greek women are beautiful use that charm honey bunny and reel one in!!