The Modrich Blog

Today is our last full day in Greece, as we fly out tomorrow at lunch time – meaning an early start to make sure we get to the airport on time.

Today was another reasonably relaxed and laid back day – we visited the National History Museum, and ate out for lunch in a lovely street side cafe adorned by fans and misting water to keep us cool.

Lunch started with a traditional glass of Ozzo (for me at least, Laura wasn’t too keen). We followed this with a seafood plater and a lamb souvlaki to share, both were fantastic.

The afternoon was then spent wandering the streets and the market – slowly heading back to the hotel.

We have spent a few hours relaxing in the hotel room, and are now gearing up to begin packing and getting ready for our departure tomorrow morning.

We are also attempting to plan ahead for some of our trip to come – the European and Italian guide books being flicked through rapidly trying to determine the ‘where, what, why, and when’ of the German and Italian stags of our journey – we want to try to be a little prepared from now on in.

We have also put up some more of our picture from our time here in Greece.

Today we headed out early to catch a cruise around three of the Greek islands closest to Athens.

Leaving port this morning at about 8.30am, the sun was up and had a fair sting in it – needless to say we took the opportunity to sit on the outer deck and soak up some of the fine rays.

The first thing that stuck us, once we had left the docks and headed out to sea, was the brilliant blue colour of the water – it was absolutely amazing. People have told us about the water over here, but its something you don’t really appreciate until you see it (and later swim in it ).

The cruise was just what we both needed – some time to it and do nothing for a while!

We spent some time on each of the islands, and managed to fit a swim in on the last two – in that beautiful clear water.

Unfortunately Laura cut her foot while getting into the water at the second island – but we managed to find a local supermarket and add band aids and antiseptic spray to our current day pack first aid kit – oh and we patched her foot up in the process.

After a great day out, we have just been relaing, and doing some washing in the hotel – and trying to plan what tomorrow will bring.

We have posted our photos from Athens in a new album here.

We got into Athens yesterday afternoon – great weather, we managed to escape the bad weather that has been forecast for the UK!

Yesterday basically involved getting from the airport to the hotel and checking in.

Today we decided to take an easy day – we have been on the go for so long you just need to recharge the batteries every now and then.

So a slow day involved heading into the Acropolis and seeing a number of the other sites that surround it.We then had a bite of lunch at a local cafe before heading back to the hotel for the afternoon – where we hav spent hours attempting to plan how to get from Finland to Germany without it costing a fortune. Unfortunately this is just not possible, so we booked the first flight out (which was the cheapest by far, but still relatively expensive ).

We have booked onto a 3 island tour for tomorrow – so this will be a long day, but we are looking forward to getting out and seeing some of the islands.