Athens

Hey everyone, Lars here.

So today did not go exactly as planned but it was very productive nonetheless.

We left our hostel in the morning and headed for Piraeus, the main port in Greece, about a 30 minute train ride from Athens.

Ben stealing WiFi from a nearby hotel

The port at Piraeus

Once we made it to the harbor, we found out that there were no boats that day going to Kythnos, (the island we were planning on going to) so we bought tickets for tomorrow and headed back into town.

We wandered around a market district not to far from the Acropolis, looking for an internet cafe. We eventually found one, looked up a new hostel to go to, grabbed a bite to eat at a Gyro stand, and took a taxi to our new hostel.

After dropping our things off, we began the long walk back into town towards the Acropolis.

We passed by these riot police on our way. While we did not see any protests, we heard from other travelers that they disrupted traffic in the center of town.

We spent the rest of the day at the Acropolis and the surrounding areas, like Agora and the Temple of Hephaestus.

We then had dinner at a restaurant nearby where we ran into four other Americans, two of whom were from Washington State, one was from Camano Island and the other used to live on Orcas Island!

Pretty Small World.

Here are some of the pictures I took throughout our journey today.

Our plan for tomorrow is to head back to Piraeus and catch a boat in the afternoon.

We'll update you all on our adventures as soon as we can.

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Andio.