ATHENS 2 Day 105 Saturday Nov14 1755 I woke up this morning at 0700, I lay in bed for another 2.5 hours. It was awesome. 0930 (16Nov) There are tooled up cops everywhere. Since the new government came in a few weeks ago they’ve been trying to give off the whole impression of the people being safe. I dunno I reckon it looks pretty imposing. There not just regular cops, there’s boys in their black pyjamas with mp5’s all over the place. Saturday we le...

I’m on the train now about halfway to Athens. The train is packed. There’s not a spare seat some people are standing and others are sitting in the spaces between the carraiges. 1630 The country is so much more beautiful here then the rest of the Balkans, the ground is actually green and the hills aren’t baren, We’re steaming through green valleys again flanked by snow capped mountains. Except the train stinks, to many stinky ass travelers. 2140 Th...

THESSALONIKI 2 Day 102 Wednesday Nov11 1550 I think I just ordered the most expensive coffee I’ve had ever. 4.5 Euros, that’s about 7.5 AUD. What a crock. It better be good. I’m sitting in a café at ‘Mediterranean Cosmos’ it’s the shopping mall out here. The place is pretty much empty well this coffee bar isn’t but the rest of the mall sure is. I woke up this morning at 8 and had a feed and went for a run. My legs were pretty heavy from ye...

THESSALONIKI Day 100 Monday Nov8 0825 It’s day 100. I’m on the train down to Thessaloniki. 28 countries in 100 days. It’s possibly too much, but I’d regret not doing it if I didn’t. I don’t reckon it’s all sinking in now, it’ll probably take a good 12 months for it too all sink in. The trains down here are very different to back home. The train lines were built 40-50 years ago by the communists yet the roads are much more recent. As a resul...