Yesterday we went to Delphi. This meant a 6am start. We got the metro to Larissa Station and then we followed the hostel's directions. About 3 hours later, we managed to find Terminal B of the KTEL bus... This involved walking the entire length of Liosson st (Λιοσιων). To give you an idea, here is a link to Google Map. Check the scale against the length of the street. Needless to say, we missed the 7:30am bus. We did catch the 10:30am bus though, and arrived in Delphos/Delphi at 2pm. Yes. That's a three and a half hour bus journey from Athens. It cost us 30 euros to go as well and we couldn't get the bus back until 6pm (back in Athens for 9pm). We were pooped.
Once we got there we discovered that 1) Delphos is a beautiful little town with lots of nice restaurants and hotels named after Greek gods 2) there is one cash point in the town and 3) that everything closes at 3pm. We had a mad rush around the archaeological site, never made it to the museum and then sat playing cards and listening to stupid Japanese pop songs and the Nightmare Before Christmas Revisited soundtrack.
Getting back to our hostel was an easier affair as we found a metro stop next to the bus station. Our hostel had told us to get off at the wrong station before... We got back to Syntagma at about 10pm and got a McDonalds. The McDonalds in Greece is perhaps the only McD's in the world that serves black tiger prawn salads for under 5 pounds.
Today we slept in while 11am, got ready, had lunch (gyros again) and went to the National Archaeological Museum in Athens. It's a pretty good museum. Not as big as the British Museum, nor as varied. They also don't let you take pictures of the most important stuff. I had to delete some of my photos when someone caught me, luckily the rest I managed to keep because my camera (which got broken by Tuna on the acropolis) has been playing up and randomly went to a photo from teh British Museum instead of the ones I had just taken.
One thing I will point out though. Never ever stay in the Omonia area of Athens. I had heard it had a bad reputation, but I didn't expect it to be as bad during the day all the same. There were prostitutes plying for trade on the main road that the museum was on. It was rather strange. No one else apart from tourists seemed bothered by it. I guess it's the Athenian version of Soho or something...
We returned to the Plaka, had a milkshake (banana split flavour) and got warned that there are Bulgarian and Romanian 'mafia' working in the area. It took us a while to realise the man meant 'pickpockets' not mafia XD As in all tourist spots, we have to watch out bags, even in the classier areas like Plaka.
Tonight I think I'm going to have Lamb Souvlaki skewers. It might be 10 euros, but today I have only spent a grand total of 2 euros getting to the museum and back and 3 euros on lunch. The milkshake was the left overs from yesterdays budget XD
Signing out~
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