Day 3: May 8, 2008 - Last Word from Athens Last night after we finished writing, we went back out to try to find some Athens' nightlife and failed. We really didn't know where to look and plus it was a Wednesday so we didn't find anything going on. We tried to go to a "posh" area called Kolonaki where we read was a good place to watch people "promenading" up and down the streets, but I guess those people weren't there. We did get to take a picture of the Parli...

DAY 2: May 7, 2008 - Athens, Greece (cont.) Last night our roommates arrived. They are from Australia and have been backpacking for five weeks. They say that this hostel is one of the "dodgiest" they have stayed in, which we guess is promising since we don't even think it is THAT bad. They also like our accents, especially when we say "y'all" which is kind of ironic since most Americans would be entranced by their Aussie accents. This morning, as we were leav...

DAY 1: May 6, 2008 - Athens, Greece Laura is typing this so don't be too thrown off if you read words like cute and see lots of exclamation marks, haha. Today we arrived in Athens around 10:00 a.m. We caught a train from the airport into the city. The trains were really smooth and much cleaner and nicer than our train in Atlanta. After puzzling over our map for quite a while we finally found our hostel which was only about five blocks from the train station we ...