Lost in Athens...

Dear all,
sorry, only a very quick check in this time. It is after 11PM in downtown Athens. We left Tinos, splitting up with Fr. Nicholas and Gabriel, and had a brief overnight visit to Andros, which I will write about in detail later. Unfortunately, I had done a nice blog on this leg of the trip and when we got back to the internet cafe here in Athens, we found out we cannot download everything as we'd been told earlier we would be able to. So Christopher has a nice blog entry or two on his laptop instead of you! Will remedy this when we can...

We made it into Athens and to our hotel, which is nothing fancy but adequate and with about the best location you could ask for -- we step out the door and see the acropolis up above us a few blocks away.

We went up and did that this morning and also found the Byzantine Museum. We have been unable to connect again with Fr. Nicholas and are unsure about his plans for the next few days, so we are floundering a bit, trying to figure out where to go next. We do like Athens, but it is eating our wallets at a tremendous rate. We thinking of leaving tomorrow. For sure there must be a ton of things to see here, but we don't really know where to go or what to do, so heading elsewhere, probably with a car again, seems like the best plan at this point.

We will check in again later when we have the time. All are well -- healthy and in good spirits. Athens in the plaka is pretty fun.

Signing off near midnight in Athens, before Christopher falls asleep at the console next to me.

Macrina