Honeymoon Day Six

This was our big ferry day. We woke up nice and early to catch the metro to the port to get on the 7:45am ferry. The ferry took us to Mykonos Island. It took about 5 hours but at the end of it we ended up here.

It is just beautiful. We grabbed some groceries and after some confusion with the bus system made it to our flat in Plato Gialos. Ahh the island life!

I highly recommend Plato Gialos and going to the Greek Islands in May. The weather was beautiful and since the season was just starting you didn't have to fight any other tourists for restaurant reservations or beach space.

Honeymoon Day Five

Today was busy and yet not very exciting.

Today was take care of business day. We got up and went to the train station to book our overnight train from Athens to Sofia, Bulgaria and then took the metro to the port city to book our ferry and find out where we were going and then we hit up the Ancient Agora one more time, mostly to use the restroom and get water before shower, dinner and bed.

This picture is me at the Ancient Agora in the building that houses the museum.

Here is a picture of our craft beers. I got Hefeweisen and Ryan got something that seriously tasted like Smoked Gouda. They also give you lays potato chips with your drinks. We sat outside on the patio and watched all the teenagers strut by.

This picture is sideways so turn your monitor a little. The door is the door to the WC (restroom) and the box on the left is where you put in your token so that the water for the shower is hot. Each token is 8 minutes.

Honeymoon Day Four

*** Sorry for the delay. We move tomorrow so life has been hectic!

This was our first full day in Athens so we packed up our stuff, grabbed our new German friend, Martin and set off. It was hot and we did a lot of walking but we saw most of the good stuff today.

For example- here is a picture of the temple of Hephaistos in the Ancient Agora. The Ancient Agora is right next to the new market and between them runs the metro. When you are at the Ancient Agora it is very quiet and you can barely hear all the tourist noise from across the tracks. This is one of the most complete temples in Athens.

This is the Temple of Zeus.

This is one of the performance spaces at the Acropolis. This one is still in use and mainly is used for musical concerts. The theatre spaces were not built with the back wall.

This is our obligatory picture at the Acropolis.

We also went to the brand new Acropolis Museum which was excellent. Lunch was grabbed at the Ice Grill in touristland which was surprisingly very good and after a shower and a nap at the Hostel Ryan and I went out for dinner.

The waiter at dinner was Greek but had lived in Indiana, so spoke English. We let him choose our food. We ended up with an excellent meal, some local beer and were surprised with a strange cheesecake, jello, jelly dessert item on the house.

All in all an historically satisfying day.

Honeymoon Day Three

Today we traveled to Athens, took the train to the main square and then walked to our hostel. Ryan had stayed at Youth Hostel #5 before and we only wandered a bit before finding our way. Picked up a German student on the Airport Train named Martin.

Found out later that Fox news was displaying the main square on US TV and that it seemed to be filled with rioters and smoke bombs and violence.

They must have had special lenses to see all of that action. All we saw was a big empty square.

Honeymoon Day Two

We woke up way to late- Jet Lag issues and went to Trafalgar Square for lunch. Ryan had bangers and mash.

It was election day which had nothing to do with this tent city set up right down the street from Parliment. We found out later that they took it down because the group had started planting veggies in the lawn and the Queen was upset.

Then we wandered around London for a bit, and hit up the British Museum.

I had already been on my last trip but this time we went through all the greek items that the British removed from Greece. Later on we saw all the places the sculptures had been before that removal and got a chance to look at all the plaster replicas the Greeks have been allowed to cast from the items at the British Museum. Seems weird.

Ended the day with Indian food at a brewpub and a walk down High Street. Then watched the Election Coverage on the telly with Duff and Larissa. No clue who won that election.

Honeymoon Day One

I'm going to do our trip one day at a time- a technique I am borrowing from my friend Shannon and her blog- NomadsUnlimited.

Ryan and I took our long awaited Honeymoon in May. We started our trip by traveling to Newark to take our flight to London. Our plane was only delayed an hour which was good since most of the flights around us were cancelled due to the ash cloud.

After arriving in London we travelled to Ryan's brother's home in St. John's Wood where we were going to stay. We grabbed a bit of lunch and took off for the V&A museum. It was really incredible.

This is just one of the many rooms full of the items Victoria and Albert collected on their travels.

I guess it pays to be royalty!

Texas Family

Last weekend I went to Houston to visit my mom for a quick weekend. We went to Chuys, and visited the new baby Phoebe, and her parents, and generally hung out with the family. It was nice. The last time I was home was right before my wedding and it wasn't really relaxing.

At the beginning of April they had some to visit Ryan and I in New York. This picture is of them standing right where Ryan proposed. It is a bridge overlooking Amsterdam Ave. We also wandered the city, went to Times Square and a jazz club and generally had an excellent time.

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