Greece

And on with our whirlwind tour! We've got lots to report since our last post. About a week ago, we caught a flight to Athens via Warsaw, where we had a one day layover. That was actually quite nice. The Warsaw transit system is unreal- incredibly effective and efficient. Even the buses have route maps on them, and ALL of the stops have signs that are readable from the bus. Hard to get lost. The city itself was quite nice, they did a good job of rebuilding after the war. The hostel we stayed at was downtown, near the university and the academy of sciences and a huge statue of Copernicus. Very cool.

Athens is....a very large city. We wound up staying 3 nights (tues-fri), as the Acropolis was closed due to strikes and then I got sort-of not quite sick for a day and...But Athens is a very large city so we looked at some columns and some museums and caught a ferry for Crete.

And on Crete we discovered snorkeling which is really really really fun. The guy at the hotel here in Chania told us that it's too late in the year and the water isn't so nice, which I guess means the temperature has dropped all the way to 25 C. We're making do. Tomorrow we are catching a bus to a free-camping spot near a village on the southern coast of the island that is supposed to have much better snorkeling opportunities. I'll sign off now, and see about getting another post up in a few days.

Nathan