Bali Bound

Part two.  Due to some technical difficulties with my iPad not letting me scroll down here is the rest of my post! Back to the museum.  I like bones and mummies and all that.  Pottery shards are a little dull.  Even miscellaneous gold stuff gets dull after awhile.  But I was really happy to have made it and I did walk through it all.  It wasn't nearly as big as I expected.  I did enjoy some of their descriptions.  They had a bowl of marble marbles, and called them marble spheres.  Very technical.  It makes you wonder what future generations will do to describe our remnant crap.  Also the museum is in a protected building.  The entire building is filled with marble.  Marble floors, marble stairs, marble walls.  They also have a lot of marble sidewalks that are in poor condition so you have to walk carefully.  Several people wiped out on the acropolis due to the marble parts of the ground. I did eat at McDonald...

Oh Americans.  I wonder about them sometimes.  The big question with fellow tourists is usually where are you from.  Simple question.  My favourite is when I tell them Canada, which confuses them.  I had one guy tell me he was from Texas, in America.  Really?  I guess some can be really unknowledgable of everything Canadian.  I feel like I should tell them I'm from Alberta and we are going to build a pipeline through their country.  Maybe then they'll know where I'm from!  Most of the tour group is pretty good and keep to themselves, and I'm fine with that.  We do have one a younger guy who has his phd in Latin.  So he knows all things roman/ Italian but nothing Greek.  So he asks questions to clarify the differences all the time.  Some of the other people were commenting on that today so it's not just me. My feet hurt so much right now,  so much.  I did so much walking.  I think I saw an impressive a...

I'm trying to keep myself awake for a bit longer.  My body thinks its 10am but the local time is 7.  But I do get a sleep in day tomorrow so that is a nice treat.  I think that is the one drawback to the bus tour.  Things are left intentionally vague.  I figured tomorrow's tour would last until late afternoon but we should be done by 1.  Would have been nice to know that ahead of time instead of scrambling to find ways to entertain me and maximize my time spent. But otherwise the tour seems exciting.  Well, I must have thought so when I booked it, but now I see the true potential.  And I like that she is giving us an early start so that we have some time to explore all the places we stay.  The last trip a lot of the tours we went straight from the bus to dinner and the city was closed when we were done.  Not that there is always a lot to see but the potential is nice. But I think it's time to retire and start fresh in the morning!

Jet lag has officially kicked in! I am finally in lovely Athens.  It seemed like it was going to be rainy but by the time I had gotten degrimed from the airplane it was a sunny and balmy 25C.  It's also so nice that they embrace the metric system here.  It's just weird seeing everything metric unlike our random system in Canada. Flight wasn't too bad.  Much to my dismay it was a plane ride from the 90's and we had no seat back entertainment.  Honestly air canada, you really expect me to watch the projection that is way too big for the screen for almost 10 hours.  So I slept.  It was a bit of a rough landing but they did warn us of the turbulence.  But I promise I'm done bitching about air canada for the moment.  It's just I'm tired and they are my biggest irritation. The Athens airport is a special place.  They actually have barricades at the customs exit to keep the people from greeting the arrivals right in the door, and there we...

It's been pointed out to me that I haven't updated the blog lately!  So here is a little something for you all. Only 2 more nights until I depart.  Is starting to feel incredibly real that before the weekend I'll be in Greece!  I did have to laugh today when I was getting some money (I know I left it late...) but the teller asked if I was going to Turkey too.  As lovely as a place as it might be the civil unrest makes me think its not so much of a good destination.  But it is far enough from the areas in Greece that I'm  visiting that I'm not really that concerned.  The guidebooks are also a little sketchy on parts of Greece as well.  Not so much with the unrest, though I've heard they protest a lot, but it's friendly, I like to call it Canadian style protesting but a little more.  But it seems that the austerity measures have impacted the tourism a bit.  But things like the museum hours are shortened.  Which I've already learned....