Wow, what a 24 hours I’ve just had! 

 

My flights were all fine and dandy, I flew from Columbus to Detroit, got delayed at the gate in Detroit ran to go catch my plane from Detroit to Amsterdam. Sat next to this older fellow who owns his own company in the construction industry and was on his way to Saudi Arabia to  try to get their business in this rough economy. After that flight I went through customs in Amsterdam and just caught my flight to Athens. The flight to Athens was absolutely wonderful. They served delicious crepes and beer for free, the best part of all though was going through the swiss alps and seeing all of the beautiful snow capped mountains. No pictures of that though… my apologies.

 

When I got to Athens I walked off the plane grabbed my pack, which was the first one off,  slung all 60 lbs of it over my shoulder and headed to catch my bus to the hostel. Everything worked like clockwork, I caught the bus right away, rode the hour on the bus, hopped off the bus, walked down to the metro took it one stop and walked strait to the hostel! Hooray for planning this all out ahead of time!

 

I checked into my hostel at around 7 pm in Athens, headed up to their rooftop bar for happy hour to this sight.

 

I had a drink then went with someone I met up there to go get a gyros for dinner. They are the best budget food ever here! Only 1.90 Euros for one and its pretty good size. Headed back up to the bar and spent the night getting to know my fellow travelers here at the hostel.

 

There was an awesome group of Irish people who were a lot of fun, they were the only other people I’ve met here planning to go out to the islands to find work. Something I’ve been really surprised by though is the amount of Americans I’ve seen here. I’d say that last night Americans were the majority of the people on the roof. But not just Americans I met 10 people all from big 10 schools. People from Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin and myself from Ohio State. Felt good to be the only one to have the bragging rights of dominating the conference haha.

 

Went to bed, woke up and headed out for my day trip to Delphi (the Navel of the World) it was absolutely incredible! The drive up took forever, over 3 hours, but it was really cool to see the countryside of Greece. We even passed a bunch of Goats! It was awesome! To be honest I really don’t have much I can say about Delphi other than it was absolutely incredible on every level. I’ll let my pictures paint the picture for you much better than I ever could. I will say though the most impressive thing about it to me was the fact that these huge ruins that are all huge pieces of cut rock absolutely blew my mind. Like how could someone in 100 BC cut a rock perfectly strait?

 

After Delphi we stopped in the little village near by there that is on the side of the mountains there. It was pretty cool to walk through, a little touristy but that was alright. The valley beneath the village had tons and tons of olive trees, and supposedly was the second largest producer for olives in all of Greece. There are picture of the village as well!

 

Tomorrow is the Acropolis and the Parthenon its going to be pretty cool!

 

Stay Classy.

 

Evan