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Euro Adventures Pt 20 - Away to Athens

An early start and off to Athens today, the capital of Greece, where all the magic happens, where the gods were worshipped and things just worked - well back then it did. We had a nice 7am start to finish cleaning our boats before Dimitri came around to inspect them - while we waited for him we popped over to the little bakery to have a cheese roll - an amazingly delicious Greek pastry with feta cheese. I've said this before - Greek food is my absolute favourite!! 

We passed our inspection with flying colours, as did the other boats, so we all piled back onto our trusty bus and started the long journey to Athens. It was about a 5-6 hour drive with a toilet stop and a stop at the Corinth Canal - a canal that many tried to create for hundreds and thousands of years but the rock was too solid to get through until the 1800's. It was pretty spectacular, especially with the blue Mediterranean waters flowing through the middle - a girl in our group decided to bungee jump off the bridge that crossed the canal... It would have been epic! 


A short drive later and we had arrived into the city of Athens, named after the Greek God Athena. It was a massive city but also very dirty and in disrepair - Noddy explained that the massive amount of pollution in the city makes it much dirtier. Plus with all of the financial trouble that Greece has been having lately the City isn't kept in the best state. At least it seemed like we were done with the threat of riots for now. We pulled up outside a hotel, a generally nice hotel, best western, stoked. We were staying in a nice hotel with decent beds, decent food, a decent shower and somewhat decent wifi. To top it off the hotel had a rooftop bar and pool that had a view straight onto the Acropolis. Well done Athens.


We all had to repack or day bags that we used for sailing for Mykonos - the campsite was apparently very dusty and sandy and our suitcases would just not be good to have. So we threw together some more clean clothes and some more toiletries ready to head to the party island of Mykonos - STOKED. We also had four new girls join the tour which we met at dinner. They all seemed super lovely and fun - it made me disappointed that we weren't going to be continuing on the rest of the tour. 

After dinner we headed up to the roof to watch the sunset over the town and the Acropolis light up. It was such a beautiful sight - I can't wait to come back here and enjoy this city after Mykonos. We didn't have a late night as we had a 430 wake up time so we could make our way down to the ferries. Everyone was keen to have a great couple of days on the party island and have a lot of bevies - I'm keen for some sun, sand, sleep, swimming and more great Greek food.


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