Day 6 and 7Ferry back to Athens, Greece
We woke up at 5:30am and caught a taxi to the port where we are taking the Blue Star ferry back to Athens. We were told that the taxi would cost 15 euros. The driver said 20 euros because he didn't have passengers on his way to retrieve us (there are no meters in the taxis). We didn't have time to argue or any other real options this early in the morning, so we went with it. After paying the driver, we now have 4 euros to our name. Once we arrived at the ferry, we were surprised to see it was clean, comfortable, higher class than expected and fortunately, an ATM on board. Update- We tried to get money out of the ATM, but it was broken and as we made stops along the way to Athens, it is getting more and more crowded and lower and lower class. Good thing we bought reserved seats as opposed to economy class, where some are sitting on fold up chairs in the hallways. With now 3.60 euros (after buying water) to our name, we should have enough money to get us to our hotel. We tried to get more money but the ATM had run out of money. We are currently surviving on an 8 hour ferry ride with crumbled saltines, granola bars, snack mix, and as a bonus, we found a pack of gummy starbursts - dessert! Torture since the family next to us is eating burgers and fries.
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Fresh off the boat, we headed to our Athens hotel, dropped our bags off, and headed back out to get our gyro fix, three for 5,40 euros. We then headed back to the hotel to relax. We grabbed a late night snack - ice cream for Eric and greek salad for Theresa. Then, off to bed!
Waiting to fly to Bangkok, Thailand
The next day, we checked out of our hotel and spent the following four hours in the hotel lounge catching up on email and planning parts of our thailand trip. We then headed to the airport. We are flying Turkish Airlines to Bangkok with a two hour layover in Istanbul. We had sandwiches at the Athens airport with the assumption that there would not be a meal on the one hour flight. To our surprise, they served dinner with a cheese sandwich, fresh tomatoes and smoked salmon. Five minutes after it was served, they announced that they were preparing to land. Good thing we know how to eat. In addition, once we landed in Istanbul, Theresa had a baklava and turkish coffee. That's all. We told you it was two days of not that much.
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mother knows best..good thing I forced you in taking the crackers & the gummi candies. it comes in handy w/ emergency cases like this one. (I just have to take care of these 2 refugees)
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