July 31 - Mykanos to Athens

As a direct result of our decision not to go out the night before we all awoke feeling chipper and wasted little time in wandering into town to grab some breakfast. However, it seems that all of Greece has been running on a similar timeframe to us and that the concept of having breakfast at 9 am is as foreign to everyone else as it had been to us and as a result, nothing was open. We eventually found a bakery and a fruit shop and everyone took the opportunity to load up on vitamins by smashing down juice, yoghurt, bananas and also the obligatory chocolate croissants. We then found ourselves a pharmacy and, concerned that the ferry would be a repeat of the day previous, bought enough seasickness tablets to medicate an army. Luckily however, the seas were calm and the ferry trip was relatively uneventful meaning that we arrived in Athens feeling a million times better than we had felt arriving in Mykanos.

After getting the metro to the hostel and finding ourselves a much-craved Gyros, we headed to the Acropolis where we hauled ourselves up the hill to have a wander around the ruins. It was certainly very cool though the fact that there was all sorts of scaffolding kinda meant that it looked more as though it were under construction than having been standing for millenia.

Following this we headed back to the hostel where we caught up on some admin stuff before heading back into town for our last dinner with the whole crew from the Greek Islands. Given that for many it was the last meal they would be having in Greece everyone piled into all the traditional Greek fare including tzatziki, greek salad and moussaka and after another great meal, some gelato, a huge number of unsuccessful jumping photos and all sorts of sad goodbyes we made our way back to the hostel and grabbed some shut-eye in anticipation of beginning our adventure through eastern Europe in the morning.

Prepared to really do some blazin'

Jez