Another day, another amazing day, another post. First, here is a picture from the rooftop bar at our hostel last night (Akropolis in the background).
We woke up this morning and headed right for the Akropolis (after devouring free bread at our hostel). We walked through the Agora on the way there, which is an ancient marketplace. Since it was only 9 am, it was pretty much just us and the Agora, which was amazing.
Being on the Akropolis is something you really have to experience to understand. The Parthenon was so cool to see, especially after studying it for 2 weeks in Art History last semester. But what really stunned me were the unbelievable views of Athens. It is definitely one of my favorite cities.
This afternoon we flew to Milos... and I've never been on an airplane so small. I think it fit about 50 people. It was only 25 minutes, but that was plenty of time to serve us chocolate-filled croissants. Flying in, I was really surprised by how big the island is. We landed on the runway, and about 10 seconds after touching down, came to a complete stop and did a U-turn on the runway to go to the terminal (if you can call it that). It was crazy.
I don't think anyone actually works at the airport. A woman sprinted past us as we were walking from the plane to the terminal, and then after we got our bags (which took about 2 minutes), she sprinted back to the plane, as passengers boarded to fly to Athens (the flight left about 20 minutes after we touched down). The whole thing was really amusing.
We walked out to the parking lot to wait for a taxi. There weren't enough, so one of the drivers called another driver before leaving and said a driver named Demetris would be there in about 6-7 minutes. About 5 minutes later, a cab came up and Hilary said, "Are you Demetris?" He said No, and drove off. We thought we were pretty stupid for not just taking the cab, but Demetris came a couple minutes later. And thank god we waited for him.
He looked all all of our bags, which were clearly waaaaaaay too much for his car, and said, "No Problem!" His solution was to stick two of them fully in the trunk, and then have the other two stick out of the trunk, so that half of each was completely out of the car. And he left the trunk completely open and said, "No Problem!" I was crying from laughing so hard, and then we got in the car. He asked where we were from and we said "America." He said, "America! Bravo! Bravo!" and I started crying again. Our bags were fine and he got us to the hotel pretty quickly.
The hotel is wonderful. We have a big room at the front and a porch with a shaded table and a few chairs. Tonight we walked down to the water (about 2 minutes) and then took a cab to Plaka, the capital city which is about a 10 minute drive from Adamas, where we are. It was beautiful. We had a great dinner at a restaurant where they were getting ready for a Christening ceremony, so family and friends kept coming by and it was a really fun atmosphere. It made me want to be Greek.
Tomorrow we're going to a colorful waterside town and then to a beach that has moon-like rocks!
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