The End Is There!

Van Athens-Feb+Apr2009

Ah, Athens! Here we are again, in one of the places of ancient civilization ... wherever you roam you'll find marks and signs of thousands of years old. It's Fierce!

We stay in Athens for one night, in order to overcome the worst effects of the usual jetlag ... traveling between time zones (from left to right and vice versa) is causing physical discomfort, and we learned during our travels that it's best to overcome the jetlag in a non-homey-environment. In this case: Athens!

After a breakfast rich in Vitamin C (the hotel has this huge machine that squeezes oranges right in front of your eyes, impressive!), HL decided to repack all the luggage, he's so afraid of overweight :-) which he shouldn't, because we can pay the overweight of luggage with our airmiles :-) 

In the late afternoon, we went for a stroll from Syntagma Square all the way to Omonia Square and back, first following Stadiou lane, and coming back by Panepistimiou Lane. Some things to remember:
* Omonia is clearly the meeting point for foreign workforce, whatever the work might be: Eastern Europeans and Asians group there, clearly waiting for someone to hire them, although the young ones are missing (they obviously don't need to publicize themselves there);
* the same square is one of the red light districts: lots of xxx venues;
* the Greek are so good in statues: you find excellent examples all over Panepistimiou;
* we attended a (part of a) Holy Mass in the Saint Denis Church ... all in Latin, the Kyrie Eleisons brought back memories :-)
* it's incredible how many homeless guys there are in Athens, they sit on benches everywhere, or stroll around in the most fancy dresses, and nobody seems to really care.

And here is our program for tomorrow:
6.00 wake up
6.30 swim
7.00 breakfast
8.00 shower, personal stuff, getting ready
10.00 transport by hotelshuttle
10.10 airport, checking in
11.20 flying to Belgium!

This will conclude our quite long travel. We were enchanted by all the new experiences, and be assured that we are - already now! - looking for the new ones ahead! But first let spend summer in good old Belgium :-)

Huggies,
PB 
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