Tag: Athens

Goodbye Santorini, Hello Turkey!

Well, we just left Santorini and we’re sitting in the Athens airport awaiting our flight to Izmir, Turkey.  We’ll get there after dark and have an 80km taxi ride from the airport to Kusadasi, Turkey, which is around 15 minutes from Ephesus.  We’re staying at the Doubletree tonight, but not sure about tomorrow night.  Playing that one by ear.

I’m slightly more nervous about this part of the trip since it’s much more of an unknown.  I’m sure it will all be very interesting.  And a learning experience.

From everything I can tell, all of the more dangerous areas of Turkey are over in the eastern border close to Syria and in Istanbul.  So everything should be OK.

We Had a Great Time at the Acropolis!!!

Sorry, no pictures.  Took lots of them with my Nikon, but haven’t had time to download them yet.  Super tired tonight.  Hope to be in bed before 9PM.  As mentioned in the first post, we have a 4:30 taxi to the airport for a 6AM flight to Santorini island.  We’ll be there two days.  Should be relaxing.  May be beautiful for pics if the weather’s right.

Trenna and I agreed that we both like Athens better than Rome, but really don’t know why.  Same time of year, so it’s a fair comparison.  Rome was so much more crowded.  The major sights in Rome were so over the top; Athens is much more real and natural.  But, be warned:  walking across a street in Athens is pretty much like playing Crossy Roads, only in real life!

We’re in Athens!

We just made it to our hotel in Athens about an hour ago.  I’m feeling really strange due to the lack of sleep and my body thinks it’s around 4AM.  But it’s definitely daylight here and we’re about to leave the hotel and go to the Acropolis and the Acropolis Museum.  This is the afternoon we have to see the sights in Athens, so we have to suck it up and get with it.  You know we’re going to sleep well tonight!

And we’ll have to, since we have a 6AM flight to Santorini in the morning!  Leave hotel at 4:30!!!  Whose idea was that???