Alright, its taking me a lot to actually sit down and type this, because I’ve been constantly going/and or sleeping, or just lazy…. From Rome, I went to Bari, Italy to catch a ferry to Patras, Greece. I was told when I reserved my seat on the train that the docks to the ferry were right next to the train station…..boy were they off!!! I found an info center that said that you had to take a certain bus to the docks, but then found out that the bus that would get me there left 5 minutes before my train arrived and there wouldn’t be another one for an hour. My boat was leaving in an hour so I was out of luck there. Luckily, I ran into two girls from Korea who were needing to get to the boat too, so we all split a taxi making it much cheaper, and got there with a little bit of time to spare. I slept most of the time we were on the ship, but was able to see Greece in the morning when it was light. Once we docked, I headed to the train station and found out their train was not working, sooooooo we had to take a bus to Corinth, and then take a train to Athens. The cool part was that I got to go to Corinth. The bad part was that the station in Patras was pretty sketch. After a long day of traveling, I made it to Athens late that night and got to hear updates on both my Dad and Granddad as they were both having surgery that day. The next morning, I went straight to the Acropolis. It was incredible to see the ancient ruins of beautiful temples that had been constructed so many years ago. I walked around to the theater of Dyonassaus before going up to the top of the Acropolis, and so it was here that I actually had to jump over a fence to get back to see the Parthenon. I figured it was ok, since I paid for it, that if I got in trouble for hopping the fence I would just pull out my ticket. After walking through the Ancient Agora, more ruins, I had a typical Greek lunch consisting of soufflaki, or a gyro. One of the easiest meals to make and sheerly amazing! After this, I went to the original Olympic Stadium. Definitely not as big as you would think, but for as old as it is, I would say it’s a good size.
On Sunday, I finished up my time in Athens by seeing the Temple of Zeus, the Royal Gardens, the Sunday Market, Athen’s Changing of the Guard(quite interesting), and even saw the new Olympic Stadium. Its actually rather sad there because the only real area that has been kept up with is the main stadium, only because it now belongs to one of Athen’s futball teams. After a long day, I headed to the train station because I was supposed to take a night train from Athens to Bulgaria. Well, according to the people at the station, there was no train running to Bulgaria any longer, which would completely change all my plans. They said I could go to Thessaloniki and see if they had a train, so I figured that was my best option. I actually met 3 guys while I was waiting for my train, which wasn’t leaving for about 3 hours. They seemed real chill, and they said if things didn’t work out with going to Bulgaria, I could come chill with them in Germany for a little while. While we were waiting, we went searching for some soufflaki, and we just happened to find the most amazing place. I still have yet to find another place that compares with it! I got to Thessaloniki about 2 or 3 in the morning and the person there confirmed there was no train to Bulgaria. I didn’t want to pay for a hostel, because I didn’t want to miss the guys when they came through, so I slept outside the train station on the street. What a crazy night! I met up with the guys and we just hung out the whole day in Thessaloniki. We even read through Thessalonians together, which was definitely very befitting for the place we were. The guys introduced me to slacklining, while at a park, which for those of you that don’t know what it is, look it up on YouTube. A definite workout! We all actually ended up staying the night at the airport and took a flight to Germany the next morning. I’m catching up! Only about 3 weeks behind now at this point!!! ;)
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