Josie and Gigi's Adventures: 16 july - Athens! and Pure Bliss.

ferry, taxi, bus, bus, metro, walk...aaah....cool hotel room! Athens is HOT. Like a blast furnace.

We arrived in Patras thinking we'd take the train to Athens, but there were some issues there, so bus it was. But the next challenge was how to get to the bus station from the ferry port. The taxis were trying to take advantage of the tourists, but eventually we found a reasonable taxi driver and some people to share the fare with.

Breakfast in the bus station...here's the menu...

Once we made it to Athens on the bus, then we had to figure out how to get to our hotel. A very kind english-speaking couple helped us find the right city bus and then we caught the metro and voila...we found our wondrous hotel. Hotel Attalos on Athinas Str. just near Monstrataki square....with a rooftop view of the Acropolis!

After a rest, we wandered a bit and found an amazing vegetarian restaurant. Amazing food...

Herbaria ecologia...all greek and all vegetarian. stuffed zuchini, spinach w/ rice and what we thought was lemonade but turned out to be ginger juice! ooh lala! No one spoke english, so we just pointed and ended up with a spectacularly delicious meal that was cheap and amazing. We ordered two glasses of what we thought was lemonade (see below), but hmm...it was GINGER JUICE! Wow! Zesty and refreshing. Watered down a bit, really it was perfect on a hot dry day.

We wandered around some more. We found this great bookstore. Josie needed a new book. They had an English section, but we had to check out the Greek section, just to see what a Greek calculus book was like...