#33 Now I'm In Greece

Hello everyone It has been fun, folks! I arrived in Greece on Tuesday night and on the way here by way of Frankfurt, Germany, I asked if the time changed. No, I was told. The time is the same in all of Europe. So I wake up Wednesday morning, ready to start my tour to Delphi and Meteora and the woman at the Hostel I stayed at said, You're late! No, I pull out my phone and show her the time, it's only 7:40 and I don't have to be at the meeting place until 8:00, except that it is already 9:40. Oops, I missed my trip. So after I calmed down, and the wonderful staff at the hostel made a few phone calls for me, I go to the tour office and book my tours for the rest of my stay in Greece. I saw Athens on Wednesday. Met a very nice French woman at the Acropolis who was traveling by herself and we shared a taxi to see one place, then met for dinner that night at a great restaurant with live Greek music. It was a perfect day. Next day I did my tour to Delphi and Meteora and a picture is worth a thousand words so I will attach a photo. Got back last night and went to a free concert at the Acropolis Museum with two women from my hostel. It was a Full Moon and Athens was hopping with four free concerts we could have gone to. It was wall to wall people. This morning I left at 6:00 a.m. for the ferry to Paros Island, one of the many Greek Islands. I still have not met the owner/managers of the hotel I am staying at that they went to a wedding here. There are many weddings today, I've been told. Lucky that the hotel was close to where the boat came in that I was told I was going to be picked up (look for your name on a sign, yeah right!) but no one showed up. After the camino I am in good shape so I walked to the hotel pulling my suitcase. The cleaning woman called the owner when I arrived, told them about me and she showed me to a room. She doesn't speak any English so it's been fun. I've walked around in town today and it's exactly what I expected of a Greek Island. Blue water, lots of beaches, perfect weather, white houses, lots of open air cafes. I'm sitting in one now that they are the only places that have wifi. None at my hotel. Tomorrow I will get up early and will take a bus ride to the other side of the island to see the other village here and the rest of the island. I'm in Parikia on the island of Paros, and the other village is Naoussa. Then I go to Mykonos on Monday for one day before flying to Istanbul. I thought I lost everything I typed so far so I am going to close and attach my photos. The photos are of the Pantheon from the roof of my hostel at night with the full moon. And of this one high point in Athens (this is where I shared the taxi with the French woman). And then on to Meteora with the monasteries built high in the mountains back in the 1300s. And they are still occupied. Don't you just love them! I certainly did. Any questions, please ask. I am not doing a good job of explaining things. I'll keep posting. Marie