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Sunday Oct 4, 2015 #
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Overnight flight Friday night to Athens for a family trip with my brother's clan. Bit of a bumpy ride, and for about 20 minutes way too bumpy, can't remember ever being tossed around as much, and needless to say, I was not too happy. But it passed.
Never been to Greece before. Did some looking around the city the old folks way, from the top level of a sightseeing bus, just to see what was around. Rather pleasant. And then found a nice Greek vegetarian restaurant for dinner. And then slumberland for about 10 hours. :-)
My brother arrives this evening. He's the one who organized everything, since (ancient) Greece is his area of knowledge and he's been here lots of times. Athens for a couple of days, then Delphi to see what my fate is, then south a bit, then Crete and Rhodes. Should be interesting.
Missing the A meet this weekend, also next weekend. But since we are both ailing, would be missing them anyway. So the timing of the trip turns out to be fortunate rather than unfortunate as I had expected.
Never been to Greece before. Did some looking around the city the old folks way, from the top level of a sightseeing bus, just to see what was around. Rather pleasant. And then found a nice Greek vegetarian restaurant for dinner. And then slumberland for about 10 hours. :-)
My brother arrives this evening. He's the one who organized everything, since (ancient) Greece is his area of knowledge and he's been here lots of times. Athens for a couple of days, then Delphi to see what my fate is, then south a bit, then Crete and Rhodes. Should be interesting.
Missing the A meet this weekend, also next weekend. But since we are both ailing, would be missing them anyway. So the timing of the trip turns out to be fortunate rather than unfortunate as I had expected.
C • Greece 11
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Forgot one thing about the flight over -- actually it was pre-flight. The gate agent at JFK looked looked a lot like Ross. Not so much physically, though he was the same siza and shape, but he had the same vibe -- same smile, same weird hair which I'm sure Ross has featured at some point (shaved on the sides, longish and slicked back on top, about a three-day-old beard). I mentioned it to Gail as we were getting on the plane. Her reponse: "Yup, he was really cute."
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Tourist time today. A museum, lots of stuff about ancient Greece. Then to the top of a nearby peak for the view (fine but also smoggy, too many clean diesels). Then to the old Olympic stadium used in 1896, pretty cool. Then ice cream and nap time....
Also checked out first of what I assume will be many demonstrations, but this was not Greek vs Greek as I expected but Pakastanis against some visiting Pakistani minister. Rather small, maybe 40 people, but very loud. Miss this sort of thing living in Sunderland.
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Tourist time today. A museum, lots of stuff about ancient Greece. Then to the top of a nearby peak for the view (fine but also smoggy, too many clean diesels). Then to the old Olympic stadium used in 1896, pretty cool. Then ice cream and nap time....
Also checked out first of what I assume will be many demonstrations, but this was not Greek vs Greek as I expected but Pakastanis against some visiting Pakistani minister. Rather small, maybe 40 people, but very loud. Miss this sort of thing living in Sunderland.