Change of Plans

Greece was a lot of fun, but had a lot of ups and downs. We started off in Athens and had a lot of fun looking at the ruins at the Acropolis and the Agora and climbing the hills to get some good views of the city. We wanted to go to some of the Greek Islands, so we went to Crete, but it was completely dead, and we ended up wasting two days getting to Crete and trying to leave again. We also visited a really picturesque little tourist city called Napflion which had a really big castle on a mountain that we climbed up to. The funnest part, by far, was a little day trip we took to an island called Aegina. The island is really small and its famous for its pistachio nuts. Anyway, we rented scooters and spent the whole day scootering around the island.

When we were in London, the airport people toko all of my toiletries, so I didn't have any shampoo or soap for over a week. To improvise, we used dishwashing soap as shampoo which actually worked pretty well. We have toiletries now, so I can take real showers. Only now I miss smelling like citrus.

We left for Bulgaria yesterday on a night train, and we got into Sofia, the capital, today. The first thing we did was go eat at a nice grill, and got a lot of food for only 5 euros each. Bulgaria is the cheapest country I've been to so far which is a welcome relief. We ended up choosing Bulgaria because Turkey turned out to be too expensive, and this way we can hit up Romania on our way back to Budapest. So, even though I won't be able to visit Egypt like I really wanted, we'll save some money and be in an environment that's much more familiar for us.