We had much better luck making it to the airport on time for our flight to Athens this morning than we did for our flight to Rome a couple days ago, but unfortunately the ground crew and the airport was not so efficient. We sat in the plane for almost an hour before being cleared for take off, but we did make up a little bit of time in the air. Once we landed we ad a little adventure on the train to get to our hostel, this is the only place we've been that doesn't even use the same alphabet.
After checking in we went to the bar downstairs for our “welcome drink” which was, as i feared, ouzo (a really gross licorice flavored alcohol that is, for reasons i don't understand, quite popular in Greece). While we wear sitting at the bar i made the mistake of volunteering the fact that i spoke some French, which made me the perfect person to translate for an Italian man at the front desk. So i spent the next 20 minutes trying to explain to him that the hostel hadn't charged his card yet for the room, and that he had only paid a deposit. Once I was free of translating duties, we had a great dinner about 30 yards from our front door, 1,60 for a gyro! Unfortunately we have yet to find hummus, despite checking four different grocery stores.
I think we'll go out for a little while tonight, and tomorrow we're planning to take a walking tour of the city. We'll probably head out of Athens to one of the Greek isles, maybe Mykonos? tomorrow evening or Sunday morning, one we figure out the ferry schedule.
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