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Athens, Greece
Today we started our adventure by flying to Athens from the UK. The flight started a bit jerkily, with some heavy turbulance, but soon levelled off for a trouble free 4 hour flight. Once we had arrived in Athens airport it was a swift 1 hour metro trip to our hostel, where luckely we were upgraded to a near-by hotel, which was a nice way to start our trip. The hostle itself is pretty crap with an inhospitable reception man and poor hygeine, but its ok for us beca...