The deal was to spend a day in Athens since I'd never been, and one day in Nafplio since Lianne's in love with Greece's first capital... Good compromise, I think!
Today, we spent the (whole) day in Athens. In all honesty, as much as Athens is a major place to visit with so many cool things to see and visit, I wasn't that psyched to go in the first place... I don't know why.
Damn, was it ever fun though...
We wanted to give our bank accounts a breather so we braved the metro.
We had to walk about 10 minutes from the hotel to the metro station, which is right next to the port, apparently...
The hotel lady had given us a map of Piraeus so we could easily find the metro station... I'm great with maps; no lie.
And so, we're walking towards our destination, and walking, and walking, and walking. It's 10AM and the heat is already insanely UP THERE. I knew we were really close to the station, but I just couldn't see it. I walk into a ferry agency and ask where the heck is the station exactly --- 4 blocks from here. Ok.
We keep walking. There comes a pedestrian overpass and we figured that one of the staircases would lead to the metro....
WRONG.
We got a good view of the port.... BUT NO DAMN METRO!
We keep walking a couple blocks and Lianne asks where the freaking station is," Metro??"
"Yellow building --- RIGHT THERE!"
Oh for skata's sake. We passed right in front of it and even saw it as we were doing our mini-SIGHTSEEING ON THE FREAKING OVERPASS.
UGH.
We walk into the yellow building, buy a ticket and catch the metro.
Easy peezy... HA!
I heard so many not so great stories about metros... I think I psyched myself up a little too much. Anyway, bottom line: we rode the metro, got off at Omonia Square and
STARTED OUR DAY IN ATHENS BABEYH!
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