Well, our time in beautiful Greece is quickly slipping away! Its been so great so far though! :) We stayed at the 'Pink Palace' in Corfu, a world famous hostel that is actually very centered around partying, but since we were there at a slow time when there weren't many guests, we didn't feel very out of place. We rented quads one day, which was really fun (even though I flipped my quad and almost died haha) and we swam in the sea at 2 in the morning. I think my highlight was our last day when we simply lay on the beach for hours! I got a sunburn, but it was so worth it just to spend a day being totally lazy, reading a book and feeling the warmth of the sun on my skin! We took a night bus from Corfu to Athens, and got here at 5.30 am. We were on our way to our hostel, and things were all going smoothly, until we were stopped by security in the metro station and asked to show our tickets. Now we had bought tickets for the bus, and on the back they said "athens urban transport" so we had assumed that they would work for the metro as well. When we got to the metro station, we validated them in the machine, and it worked fine, so we figured that everything was good. But when we showed our tickets to the security guys, they said 'THis is not a valid metro ticket' and fined us 48 euros!!!! Each!!! We were outraged, and soo tired and grubby from our night on the bus. We tried to explain that it was a misunderstanding, but they wouldn't budge. Wanting to get the whole thing sorted out, we went straight to information and waited for it to open (which wasn't until 7.30) and when we explained everythign to the ladies there, they seemed a little sorry for us but told us that we could either pay right there, or go to the port and pay later. So finally we paid, begrudgingly..... it wasn't exactly the best way to start off our stay in Athens! When we got to the hostel (finally) they gave us a good breakfast and let us sleep on the couches for a few hours until we were able to check into our room at 1:00. For the rest of the day we just went for a walk and went out for some supper. I had yoghurt and honey for dessert, which is typically greek and very good! Our hostel here is pretty cool- you can go up onto the roof and see the acropolis which is all light up at night. Its also got a nice common room/bar/restaurant where you can meet lots of people, and everyone who works here is really nice. Today we went to the Acropolis with a girl we met in Corfu named Jayna, and it was really cool, I took a lot of pictures! :) We also walked around Plaka, a district where there are lots of little shops, narrow streets, fruit vendors etc. We plan on going out for supper tonight with a bunch of people, and tomorrow we're going to take a tour offered by the hostel all around Greece. We're all healthy and the weather had been amazing this week. I'm out of internet time- love you all and wish you were here!!!
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Hey everyone! So we finally got the chance to put some of these pictures onto our blogs, because we are staying here in Austria with some friends of Steph's who have a computer that actually works! These ones are pretty random: from Barcelona, Toulouse, Nice, Pisa, Rome, Corfu, Athens, Venice, Salzburg.... can't wait to tell the stories that go with them! :)
