Limnos Limnos Limnos! What a wonderful island. After an excited moment of "eeeeek!" upon finally meeting up with Ariane, Liv, Pop and Ariane's friend Stephanie, we headed to Pireaus to catch the ferry to Limnos, which is the island in the north Aegean where Ariane's dad Tom is from. Besides a creepy midget begger who spat and slapped her way through our card game, begging for whatever she could get her filthy little hands on, we got on the ferry unscath...

The company of the Germans made the train rides bearable, and it was a relief to talk to some fellow travellers. They too were heading to Athens, and the train ride from Thess to Athina was especially scenic, winding through these rolling hills and misshapen shrubbery, the sunrise making it all the more beautiful. An overwhelmingly kind greek woman for some strange reason decided to take us under her wing for the entire train ride, we had accidentally sat in her ...