On the 27/05 we arrived in Greece. We caught the train to our hostel which was in Athens - This was our first real walk with our back packs in the heat and it was hard work, everyone stares at you as well because you are obviously so a tourist!
Our hostel was right in the centre of "Plaka" - the main tourist suburb in Athens. It was a great spot but shops and food around were really expensive!! the ppl in restaurants were really pushy as well! Our room was a share room with bunks, we had 2 Irish guys staying with us but they were both pretty nice and very helpful!
Our fist day we went on tours of Athens. We took a tour around Athens and saw all the ancient sights including the sight of the first olympics (where Jarrod ran a 100m sprint), aswell as the Acropolis which is AMAZING....It sits on a hill above Athens and you can basically see it from anywhere. We took a bus around Athens which only cost 5Euro each for the whole day. There were about 1000 tourists up the top and it was so hot about 38 degrees so we drank about 10 litres of water! It took about 25-30mins to get to the top of the Acropolis, it was hard hard work!!!
We watched Indiana Jones in an open air cinema whcih was situated on the top of a building, from here you could see the Acroplis all lite up at night it was gorgeous.
The nightlife was really good in Athens, restaurants were still full at about 10 at night and ppl still walking through the streets, we had heaps of trouble trying to find a pub though they were all restaurants with restaurant prices.
Our Hostel wasn't very nice at all in Athens, the sheets were grose, the air felt so dirty and the toilets - i cant even describe.... (In Greece you cant flush toilet paper you have to put it in the bin which was next to the toilet, it always got blocked and stunk so so bad - needless to say you never wanted to be behind a rubbish truck!!!!
