The hostel in Athens...is hot as balls, oh my gosh. 8 beds, 4 bunks in the space of Ali's rez room, crazy right. John and I aren't on the same bunk. John is in the coughing corner, everyone around him sounds like they're dying, uggh. The toilet doesn't flush...nice. But it's time to man up (Ali...disturbia "uh oh time to man up Allan" as he watches cops). So now, I've learned to just embrace the ridiculous parts of the trip. Plus I have a hotel in santorini to look forward to in a few days (actually...that is now...as I write this).
In athens, we went to the Acropolis, there's f***in' scaffolding everywhere. I try to look past the scaffolding at the beautiful greek buildings behind it, but honestly that's like trying to picture a girl naked when she's wearing a parka and snow pants. "Acropolis" turns out, is the greek word for rules, we had annoying greek ladies yelling at us a bunch of crap like 'you can't go there', 'no flash', 'no pictures with people and statues in the museum' (What!?!) and their personal favorite 'don't stop, don't stop' (I know what you're thinking and..."that's what she said".
But all in all it's still amazing to see this stuff. Mr. Kevin would probably give an amazing tour through this place full of greek myths and whatnot. Anyways, we checked out a bunch of places.
And while we were looking for the last place on the list, we got lost and ended up in downtown Calcutta, it was the scariest moment of my life. I think we wandered into the sketchiest street in greece, I think it was the Turkish quarter, I now call it "turkish delight". Let me put this into perspective, I'm walking down a street wearing boardshorts, spy sunglasses, a billabong shirt, carrying a nice camera...ughh. OUtta time more to come.
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Hey Neil,
Your father sent me the link to your hotel (NOT hostel) in Santorini. Wow! Your previous adventures must make it that much better. I like your image of the Acropolis obscured by scaffolding being like a girl in a parka. I don't think there will be much scaffolding to obscure the view in Santorini...
Dear Neil, I am enjoying your notes. Be careful and keep having fun. You guys are in my prayers. Love, Aunt Trish.
this........is..........hilarious.
Know I posted on your facebook page, but as I pretend to work in the office I'm thinkin up my own Eurotrip for next year.
And oh yah, its Ottawa-Anaheim in the finals, Ottawa's gettin owned 2-0 so far. Not sure if any crazy gypsies let you know about that.
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