JA TRAVEL BLOG

Well, it all started with the concept, “ if we gonna travel, all destination must not speak the language that we ARE familiar with.” Sort of make life more “difficult”. In our case, more chicken n duck challenge!

The flight as usual starts with complains abt cabin crews who acted like we have not paid the $2 we owed them since last week. Anyways the flight with Turkish Air was great including the food, although it took more than 14hrs to reach Athens plus the transit at Istanbul.

Being a sucker for historic places, walking in a city mixed with history that dates back to anytime BC(Before Christ), is simply ………… better than history class.

We did not check out any of the historic sights upon arrival but did explore the rich Plaka areas for food & people watch. Since we still missed our rice staples, what better way to get good cheap food than to ask the Bangladeshi street sellers. Not only did Akbar tell us where to eat, he even took the trouble to bring us to the makan place & became our tour guide for a while.

The Plaka hangout area with the ancient Acropolis in the background is both romantic & freakin’ cold since the temperature dropped to 10 degrees C due the slight drizzle. Initial forecast was 18 degrees!

What helped to warm us was Catherine, a nice 60 year old local, who decided to become our night guide while I was admiring the Bouzouki, an ancient Greek guitar. You have to Google it to find out how it looks or sound like.

Met lots of nice people & 2 free guides made the start of our adventure really easy. That’s about how our 48hr day pans out. Got to sleep off the jet leg now.
Oh yeah, its gonna be a daily account of our 3 weeks travel.