First part of the trip... adventurous at best...
*Tip- don't fly standby unless you have a change of undies, a toothbrush, and comfy clothes.
Why, you ask? Because flying standby means you have to be flexible enough to fly by the seat of your pants, and change your plans on a whim. In our case, that meant flying to London instead of Frankfurt (couldn't get on the flight,) and then getting a cheap ticket to Athens- scrapping our full price tickets from Frankfurt... That one flight a day thing to Frankfurt can really get ya! BUT, we did get to fly business to Heathrow- ate a four course meal (with champagne,) and slept like babies in the super lux recliners... the flight to Athens was a different story, somewhere between riding a Greek bus and witnessing the decline of fallen Greek beauty queens (the flight attendants.)
Once in Athens, we quickly learned (the hard way) two things: a. that our luggage was still in Chicago (malakas!) and b. that Greek taxi drivers will indeed rip you off (the books weren't lying! malakas!) But, onward we trudged to our hostel- not the fanciest of places, but the staff is the best!
Three days later, here we sit... Tim in clean clothes, bikes put together, and Piper in Tim's clothes... oh yeah, my bag is still in transit!!! Will we ever get out of Athens?!? Piper wasn't feeling too positive, so she cried (break down #1 on day 2- but understandably so.. probably from lack of different undies...malakas!)
Hopefully we'll be able to leave for Santorini tonight!
