ERIK 

Athens, Greece  
The Acropolis

1 June 


Map 
 
OK, Rob, we can head out of here anytime now.  The acropolis looks really nice at night, but the real building part is locked up.  This is just some side-hill or something.  Sideshow is more like it.  Would you look at these people hooking up left and right?  Wow, they're probably having sex right there behind the rocks.  Yeah, You Too can make love in the ancient splendor, the glorious sunset... and in the middle of old Coke cans and thousands of people.  Not my scene.  But I think my scene is probably around here somewhere... Athens seems to be a pretty hopping city.  Rob and I will definitely be having some fun here!  This is going to be a blast of a trip too, no one to be accountable to but ourselves.  Some definite debauchery will be occurring. 

The Youth Hostel we're staying at looks pretty good—it's even got a bar of its own in the basement.  That's pretty handy, you don't even have to worry about stumbling back after a night out, just stumbling upstairs.  There are some pretty attractive women staying there too, I saw.  Seems to be a real backpacker crossroads.  Great. 

Man, this place is cheap too!  They have real funny money here, whaddyacallem, Drachmas.  Course, we got Ripped by that damn bus driver. We look foreign, don't speak Greek... he's seen plenty like us before. 
Hey, it was a lesson learned well in any case, right?  Now I know just how much one of those drachmas is worth! 

Alright, this is about enough of just standing here and looking.  Rob?  Let's head out and hit the town.