Monday, 25 June 2007
Monday, 25th June:
Another get-up early episode, we decided to go for a walk in the early morning sunshine to the “market” – discovering it was really just a small supermarket – anyway it was closed as we were too early (before 08:00) but it was a nice walk. We went up to “Artemonas”, basically another small village.
Actually, I am so pleased we decided to stay in Apollonia, as it seemed to be the place with the happenings. I had to do some work, as I wanted to start the week on top of things, so just drafted some e-mails and prepared some documents, and then relaxed in the warm sunshine. At 11:00 we waited for the bus stop to go to the Port. We saw the local “market” – in the form of a van and donkey selling fresh produce (fish, fruit and veg) – this is what a local market is meant to be about – oh what fun! The bus arrived in the port town at around 11.30 – it was too early for lunch, so we ate a late breakfast on the portside and after which, we took the Flying Dolphin back to Athens at around 12:45.
‘twas a pleasant journey, and we arrived in Athens about 2.5hrs later, mid-afternoon. We had a manic attempt to get taxi in the sweltering heat – there was none available on the port side, and as the heat was very strong, we knew it would probably take an hour to get one, so we decided to walk outside of the port and try to hail one down from the street. We eventually managed to get one, and we arrived back at the Hilton at around 16:00. Phew!
I was out tonight for a Partner work dinner “on me”, we went to a place in Gazi – an area which I didn’t realise was where I had been previously. I was taken here by my lady friend for some drinks in some of the trendy bars around this area. Neat hey? Anyway, dinner was actually very nice – in a place called “Mamacas”. We had a nice chat about things in general, and then around 01:00 we said our farewells and I managed to get a lift back to the hotel for some well-earned rest – in preparation for work tomorrow.
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