First, Athens. Here is the Parthenon on the Acropolis. For those not in the know, Acropolis in Greek means "Huge, winding hill that you pay $20 to walk up."
It is a great view at the top though. You can see the entire city in 360 degrees. Here is where Yanni made his historic appearance. I'm sure we all remember that.
Greece has only the most beautiful women...
... and the most current pop music. Screw Corfu. I wanted to stay in Athens to see this line-up.
Here is the lake where I spent a day laying around. The sea is on the other side of that little cliff.
On to legendary Corfu. This is the island where Odysseus washed up and decided to hang out for a while because it was so nice. Good call. This was the view off my front balcony.
We took the four-wheelers literally all over the island up on all the mountains. This is the view off one of them.
I've got a few more pictures, but I was too busy having fun to snap a lot of shots. Not to mention Iwas afraid I would wreck my camera by bringing it in the water. Not an unfounded fear as after cliff diving I realized my wallet was in my shorts. One of three times I brounght my wallet in the water. Whoops.
This is in Thessaloniki. Only spent half a day there, but there really isn't a lot to see in the city. Here is the White Tower on the beach. I forget why it's important and I can't spend the time to Google it right now.
So from Thessaloniki, Icaught a train ride to Romania. 18 hours of hell. I was in a 3 bed cabin in the train with 2 drunk, loud Romanians. I was in the top bunk in the cabin, with no AC. I don't think I've ever been less comfortable for 18 hours. Anyway, I started by flipping the switches near my bed to see what they did. One turned off the lights in the cabin so I said, "Oops" and turned it back on quick. I'm not sure what "Oops" means in Romanian, but apparently it's incredibly funny. For the next 8 hours, literally, the drunks were yelling and talking and occassionally flipping the light on and off saying "Oops. Booey Booey. Oops." I'm not sure what Booey means, but after 6 hours of them doing that over and over, I said screw international relations and I told them in not so kind words to be quiet. Funny they didn't know any English except a few 4 letter words that I let fly. They caught the hint and for the most part shut up. After all that, I got into Bucharest around 6 pm. I decided I'd try to get all my traveling done at one time since I could get into Sigishoara (Siggy) at 11, so I got on a train to Brasov immediately. Got into Brasov and my next train was cancelled. I was stuck in Brasov. So I had a choice. Sleep in the train station for the night, or wait until the midnight train into Siggy. I wanted a real bed after all the train crap Iput up with, so I decided to get on the midnight train. Ended up getting into Siggy at 3:30 am. The gypsies were all over the train station, and if you're in Europe for any period of time, you hear some bad stuff about gypsies, so I was a bit concerned. The info booth happened to be 24 hours, so I asked where the hostel was. She said straight out of the station. So I went straight out of the station and walked. and walked. and walked. I found nothing. Went on a few side streets and ended up on a dead end where a bunch more gypsies were. Sprinted back to the road Icame on and headed back to the station. On my way back, thankfully, I see the hostel is right next door to the station. It was open, so I went in and got some much needed rest on a real bed. Anyway, the next day Isaw the town. Here it is from the big clock tower:
The place is old. Here's a bust of Vlad Tepes (i.e. Dracula)
Out of time on the internet, so Budapest and Vienna will have to wait. Cyas later.
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