I left Astypalaia this morning with my bags stuffed full of goodies, hand-written boarding pass in hand, headed back to the mainland.
Can I just say how AMAZING it is to see a really familiar face at the airport? I found Fern almost instantly, and then we hopped on the express bus to syntagma square, and just 45 minutes later we had walked to our hotel and checked in. The room is small by Fern's standards, but its a palace to me! We have a SHOWER CURTAIN and running water where you can actually control the temperature. Awesome!
After a brief power nap (in Fern's world in was about 3am) we went for a walk through the square stopping for cheese pies and beers. Then we went for a 45 minute walk through the beautiful national gardens and stopped by parliament before headed back to home base and getting dressed for dinner.
For dinner we went to Strofi, a really classy restaurant in Plaka with a beautiful view of the Acropolis. We sat outside and had a lovely dinner and caught up. It really doesn't feel like field school happened - its a distant dream already - and it certainly doesn't feel like I haven't seen Fern in nearly 6 weeks!
After dinner we headed back to have an early night to prep for monument-a-palooza the next day. Sadly I cannot upload pictures from here because they take ten lightyears per pixel so Ill upload the bulk of them later.
Can I just say how AMAZING it is to see a really familiar face at the airport? I found Fern almost instantly, and then we hopped on the express bus to syntagma square, and just 45 minutes later we had walked to our hotel and checked in. The room is small by Fern's standards, but its a palace to me! We have a SHOWER CURTAIN and running water where you can actually control the temperature. Awesome!
After a brief power nap (in Fern's world in was about 3am) we went for a walk through the square stopping for cheese pies and beers. Then we went for a 45 minute walk through the beautiful national gardens and stopped by parliament before headed back to home base and getting dressed for dinner.
For dinner we went to Strofi, a really classy restaurant in Plaka with a beautiful view of the Acropolis. We sat outside and had a lovely dinner and caught up. It really doesn't feel like field school happened - its a distant dream already - and it certainly doesn't feel like I haven't seen Fern in nearly 6 weeks!
After dinner we headed back to have an early night to prep for monument-a-palooza the next day. Sadly I cannot upload pictures from here because they take ten lightyears per pixel so Ill upload the bulk of them later.
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