Thursday, June 28, 2007

Naples

I have returned to a place with funny keyboards. It's qwery, but the extra things are all over the place and not all discoverable by the shift key. Weird combinations of ctrl-alt are also necessary.
Just a quick update. From Napflio we took daytrips to Mycenae (Mykenas) which is where Agamemnon's tomb and stuff is and it was seriously neato (that's right, neat-o) and we also went to Epidaurus, a really big Greek theatre that is still able to be used.
The trip from Napflio, oh let me tell you, was a doozy. Eric's alarm went off at 4:30 so he could shower and then we packed and left by 5:30, although we had to convince the night guy that we did need to pay. We caught a 6:00 bus from Napflio to the Corinth Isthmus (?) to catch another bus at 7:30 to Patra -- that bus was half an hour late...
We got to Patra around 9:30 and the train station was right by the bus station, to validate our passes, and the ferry office that we wanted to be on was on the other side of the bus station. Now, the ferry wasn't until 6 pm, but we couldn't reserve without e-mailing a credit card number because of the passes, and we are determined not to e-mail anyone a credit card number.
Anyway, so we chilled out at this restaurant/cafe reading guide books the whole time and the food there was good so that was cool. I pretty much slept the entire time on the ferry (15.5 hours) but it was that kind of sleep that only last for a maximum of 1.5 hours at a time because the ferry is so shaky, usually less time between wake up points. Moral of the story is that the sleep sucked!
It was another 1.5 hour train ride and 4.5 hour bus ride from Bari to Napflio, but we made it here! We met a bunch of people staying at the same place as us so we caught the bus over together and it was a crazy bus situation with people shoving to get on. And we witnessed our first pick-pocket. We all knew he was there and could feel him reaching in pockets (not mine!) so we had our hands on our wallets etc. but even still he managed to still this one swedish girls's cd player, the bastard. But all important things were safe in the long run, and Eric and I still have everything.
I'm going to get ready for today, but the internet here is free, just hard to get to cause of the other people, hence why i'm on at 7 in the morning.

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