Exploring the City

5/23/11

Location: Athens

I got up this morning and ate breakfast. We had some time to relax while we were waiting to start the walking tour of the city. We ended up waiting about 2 hours to get the tram passes but I just stayed at the hotel and talked with some friends. Once we finally started our tour we got on the tram to take us into the city. We haven't gone into the center of Athens yet. We are actually staying in a town right beside it. We had about an hour and a half to walk around and I got some lunch with a few friends and looked in a few shops. We traveled back to the hotel for class which lasted about 2 hours and then I went back into town with a few of the girls to go shopping. I didn’t buy anything but I still had a good time walking around with them. We went back to the hotel for dinner. After we ate I gathered with a few people from our group who wanted to go into town again. I really like to walk and explore the city. Most of the stores were closed by then but we still enjoyed walking through the streets. We spent about 3 hours walking and then stopped to eat some crepes. I got a chocolate crepe that was huge and I couldn’t finish all of it. Finally we walked back to the tram station and headed back to the hotel. I stayed up a little longer talking with some friends and then went to bed.