We arrive in Athens from Corfu via Olympic airlines and head for the bus going to Sygmata Square, it's 5 euros each for the 1 hour bus ride , that's what I call good public transport. It was one of those big bendy busses and since we were the last people on it was packed, so no seats ! The bus driver was obviously a close relation of ' the stig ' and he was on a mission to arrive before we had left. Sara shouted that the last time she had ' strap hanged ' was when she was 19..... I thing that's what she said, its difficult to tell when someone's horizontal . It looked like a chase scene from Wallace and Grommit - gritted teeth an' all.
Our hotel had a roof terrace overlooking the acropolis which was nice, (god only knows why they built it on that hill, it's miles from the train station) it was also full of American students studying old stuff. I endeared myself to them by asking them what part of Canada they came from. Irony is a wonderful thing ,
They were quite pleased?..
I thought I might do I bit of painting while I was there but paint is in short supply ,mainly because the Athenians have already spray painted every available building in Athens .
That evening we went out for a meal . On the way at the metro station there were several tramps dossing ,the police turned up and I thought , here we go ,move them on ,of at least give them a good kicking , but no ,they checked to see if they were ok and gave them some food , nice touch. The meal itself was fine but the free drink on the house at the end of the food was the highlight.
The waitress said it cleansed the mouth and was good for the digestion....
I'm not sure what it was called , but the taste was the same as dropping a rennie into a glass of listerine .
Our hotel had a roof terrace overlooking the acropolis which was nice, (god only knows why they built it on that hill, it's miles from the train station) it was also full of American students studying old stuff. I endeared myself to them by asking them what part of Canada they came from. Irony is a wonderful thing ,
They were quite pleased?..
I thought I might do I bit of painting while I was there but paint is in short supply ,mainly because the Athenians have already spray painted every available building in Athens .
That evening we went out for a meal . On the way at the metro station there were several tramps dossing ,the police turned up and I thought , here we go ,move them on ,of at least give them a good kicking , but no ,they checked to see if they were ok and gave them some food , nice touch. The meal itself was fine but the free drink on the house at the end of the food was the highlight.
The waitress said it cleansed the mouth and was good for the digestion....
I'm not sure what it was called , but the taste was the same as dropping a rennie into a glass of listerine .
Maybe you could have sat with the homeless and got a free meal and skipped the domestos at the end...
ReplyDeleteDidn't think of that, good idea. And the drink really was a combo of mint and chalk - ewww!
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