Thursday, October 22, 2009

Day upon days of travel.

Becc and I have just arrived in Austria after 3 long days of no showers, sleeping on floors of ferries and seats on trains. The trip was rough but we made the best of it by laughing a lot, crying a bit and reading during the quiet times. We both finished 2 books.

Due to our lack of shower situation, there are not many pictures from the past few days that I wish to share with you. Also we are at in internet cafe and I do not feel like uploading all of my pictures because Becc and I are so happy to be in Austria that we cannot spend anymore time inside this damn cafe.

However, I will share a few of the highlights from the past 72 hours. 1st thing was that we had planned to go to the Island of Paros, which we were both very excited about but because of the language barrier we made some mistakes with our plans and our trip to Paros fell through. So, we end up cancelling that part of the trip and going straight to Athens on an overnight ferry that apparently was a ferry full of smoking men that were loud and rude. So we slept on the hallway floor.

Then we get off in Athens at 6am. We already know how the metro works in Athens so we figure we are good to go. Not the case. The Metro is closed for some reason and no one wants to help us figure out how to get to the train station. So we walk. With our huge bags. All around the city until we find the right cuity bus, we wait for the bus but when it comes all of these older women push us out of the way and the bus leaves without us. There is a very "me first" attitude in Greece. We finally get on a train but have no idea what stop to get off at, and Becca is feeling sick. Our bags are big and weight a lot, we are tired and hungry and want to get on a train. We finally find the train station but have to sit in the station for a few hours before getting anywhere.

We are then on our way, but it will be another 2 days before getting to our final location. During the ride we make a few unwanted friends and I throw up my dinner into a bag while Becca rubs my back. We also make a few long stops along the way. One in Serbia which was extremely interesting. There seems to be a lot of poverty there and I will write more about that later on.

Oh and I forgot to add that our 3 day adventure began with many, many bug bites and a bad sun burn. We look dirty and diseased; no wonder only crazy people have been talking to us for the past few days.

More on Greece and Serbia will be posted soon. And now, I will be off to a Sound of Music tour.

2 comments:

  1. Bugs, barf and unwanted companions. Sounds like a great time.lol Glad you are now where you want to be.
    I think Janice just left Austria or maybe she is still there.
    Mama

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  2. i cant wait to adventure with you girls. i almost guarantee that there will be no sleeping in halls, but you never know what might happen...

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