We disembarked from the Princess Ship this morning and took a taxi to the hotel-Intercontinental Athenium. It Is upscale and we upgraded for 54E extra per day to gain access to the clubhouse that has free food all day; a special lobby with wifi and Internet. Really nice. The room has an awesome bathtub with marble all around. It is so nice after being on ship with a shower. The bed has 350 thread count percale sheets! The hotel supplies a free shuttle bus to the downtown area called Plaka. We met a couple from Victoria, Australia, not far from Renmark, where the McLean couple from the cruise are from.
It started raining so we found a small restaurant on a side street.It is outside under awnings and the pigeons are walking all around eating crumbs dropped from the tables. On the walk here we saw many fat, lazy big dogs asleep beside the buildings. maybe they are waiting for their masters to come out of the shops! We ordered a very good Greek red table wine and they gave us refills for 1E extra. Then we ordered chicken kebobs on a pita with yogurt, grilled tomatoes, green peppers and French fires. This area is a shopping district with all kinds of stores: shoes, many Gucci purses, Gap, Sephora, undergarments, Starbucks, Diesel, White House, Black Market. They have an unusual alphabet; some of their symbols stand for several of our letters together. The waiter said they had no desserts- but he went and found some baklava from another vendor for me! Daddy told him he needs to join capitalism. Buy baklava for 1E and sell it for 5E! It was delicious!!! Not as sweet as the ship's; therefore, it is better! Daddy then ordered an ouzo, I thought for him; but no, he wanted to Serbia I could handle it. The waiter added bottled water to it. it was very good, an anise flavor!
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