hello world
from the oldest nation in the world (sort of), we are very happy to say that we are perfectly able to communicate for the next few days. we weren't able to scuba dive for our anniversary today, as we'd planned, because they aren't taking anyone out this week until saturday...good news though, we'll still be here and are already signed up to go! so we modified our plans a bit and took the metro (we snuck on haha) to pitraeus station and searched for a ferry that would take us to the only close Grecian island for a day at the beach. Come to find out, the ferry costs a bit of money, and as it was already 1 oclock in the afternoon, we settled for searching out the only beach Athens must have. In order to get there, we tried communicating with several Athenians including but not limited to: our receptionist here at the hostel (a snobby Englishman), the chain-smoking mole-faced lady at the ferry office (who said she spoke English but only knew the word no apparently), an old man at a bus stop (who kept saying "you want swimming?" with a smile and a breast-stroke motion in the air), and a teenager (who was a bit more clever, but wouldn't take his ipod headphones out and ended up confusing us all the more because he couldn't hear). Finally, we managed to get on a bus labeled 904 (the old man's suggestion) and talked the driver into taking us to the beach by saying "sea" repetitively for at least 5 minutes. After we found the "sea" and jumped off the crowded bus, we found the beach to be a collection of rocks with boys in speedos diving headfirst into some very questionably choppy waves. Nervous about breaking our necks with the speedo boys, we decided to walk for a little while and eventually came to a moderately sandy stretch that suited us pretty well. As you might see in the pictures, Molly and I both ended up pretty sunburned, so the day was a hit afterall. We layed on the sand/rock beach tanning, writing, and listening to this new girl we found on itunes before we leaft--jessica leah mayfield. It was a great anniversary all in all, highlighted by the wonderful dinner we managed to cook ourselves at the end. We left the beach to find the ingredients for our dinner at a very greek supermarket--full of dangling octopus tentacles and strange cheese--but eventually found some pasta and salmon that molly cooked up quite nicely. We were able to eat on our porch...that's right we have a porch with a view of the acropolis from our room...and it was unbelievable. My favorite parts were when we went back and forth with 10 things I love about you and dancing in our room (I bet your minds are in the gutter but they shouldn't be it was just plain fun). Now we're alone in the basement on a very nice computer that is all in Greek, and I will be trying to decipher the funny fraternity looking symbols well enough to load some pictures. We love you all. Cheers.
Ben&Molly
Quote for the Day
Its all Greek to me. --anonymous confused person
from the oldest nation in the world (sort of), we are very happy to say that we are perfectly able to communicate for the next few days. we weren't able to scuba dive for our anniversary today, as we'd planned, because they aren't taking anyone out this week until saturday...good news though, we'll still be here and are already signed up to go! so we modified our plans a bit and took the metro (we snuck on haha) to pitraeus station and searched for a ferry that would take us to the only close Grecian island for a day at the beach. Come to find out, the ferry costs a bit of money, and as it was already 1 oclock in the afternoon, we settled for searching out the only beach Athens must have. In order to get there, we tried communicating with several Athenians including but not limited to: our receptionist here at the hostel (a snobby Englishman), the chain-smoking mole-faced lady at the ferry office (who said she spoke English but only knew the word no apparently), an old man at a bus stop (who kept saying "you want swimming?" with a smile and a breast-stroke motion in the air), and a teenager (who was a bit more clever, but wouldn't take his ipod headphones out and ended up confusing us all the more because he couldn't hear). Finally, we managed to get on a bus labeled 904 (the old man's suggestion) and talked the driver into taking us to the beach by saying "sea" repetitively for at least 5 minutes. After we found the "sea" and jumped off the crowded bus, we found the beach to be a collection of rocks with boys in speedos diving headfirst into some very questionably choppy waves. Nervous about breaking our necks with the speedo boys, we decided to walk for a little while and eventually came to a moderately sandy stretch that suited us pretty well. As you might see in the pictures, Molly and I both ended up pretty sunburned, so the day was a hit afterall. We layed on the sand/rock beach tanning, writing, and listening to this new girl we found on itunes before we leaft--jessica leah mayfield. It was a great anniversary all in all, highlighted by the wonderful dinner we managed to cook ourselves at the end. We left the beach to find the ingredients for our dinner at a very greek supermarket--full of dangling octopus tentacles and strange cheese--but eventually found some pasta and salmon that molly cooked up quite nicely. We were able to eat on our porch...that's right we have a porch with a view of the acropolis from our room...and it was unbelievable. My favorite parts were when we went back and forth with 10 things I love about you and dancing in our room (I bet your minds are in the gutter but they shouldn't be it was just plain fun). Now we're alone in the basement on a very nice computer that is all in Greek, and I will be trying to decipher the funny fraternity looking symbols well enough to load some pictures. We love you all. Cheers.
Ben&Molly
Quote for the Day
Its all Greek to me. --anonymous confused person
