Greased out in Greece

In an attempt to save a little bit off money, I've been eating at least one greasy Gyro a day as a meal from one of the corner. Tasty and cheap for about $2.00 Cdn.


I'm in Greece now and have spent the past three days in the Greek Island of Santorini where a volcano had exploded to form the island and the towns are those white washed buildings and blue domed churches you see in "Visit Greece Ads you see". Very pictureque. The beaches are OK as they are a bit rocky but the sun is hot and water cool. There are three beaches with different clours here. Black beach due to the lava, red beach due to the iron oxide and white beach due to the sulfur.

I came in to Athens and spent the perfect amount of time there... 15 hours. Came in by night train, saw the Acropolis and some archelogical site, grabbed two gyros and left by night ferry. Perfect!!! Personally, the Acropolis was OK... and I know it's important and all but personally I thought it would be more impressive. You can't walk through any of the buildings and there are cranes everywhere as they aretrying to clean and fix it up. The sites in Syria, Egypt and Turkey were more impressive for roman or ancient type ruins. Athens is loud, hot, humid, traffic congested, crowded and plenty of graffiti though not as dirty as I had anticipated.


I'm off to the night ferry tonight, sleeping on the deck or econo class and hoping to getting the heck out of Athens to Corfu or maybe Albania as soon as possible. Time to grab something to eat... maybe another Gyro?