Destination: Travel Frustration

Hello again. So although we already did a blog on Athens and Meteora, I thought I'd include some details that we had to leave out. We met some really nice people staying at Varachos Campsite. We met a couple from Australia who rode around in a camper that looked like an ice cream truck and it was called "Funky Whare" which was scrolled along the side of it in bright orange lettering. We also met an English couple who were decked out in a Land Rover complete with tent, refrigerator, water supply, MP3 player and everything else you could imagine. They were traveling from England all the way down to Syria. We also me a nice Australian guy, Glenn, who we chatted with for many nights around the fire. He was on his way to India after a year of travel.
Another interesting aspects of Meteora were the restaurants. You could walk down the street and look in the restaurants and there were only men inside. It took us our own trip to a restaurant to figure this one out. Apparently people eat most dinners at home, but then the men go out for drinks at the restaurants and watch the big screen TV's (way to help out at home guys!). We spent many hours in one restaurant because they had 50 inch plasma screen, which I'm sure you can all imagine, that Seth absolutely loved.
As the days progressed in Meteora it got progressively colder. I don't just mean cool, I mean freezing. And we were in our tent. We ended up sleeping, miserably, in all of our clothes just to keep warm. We even stopped showering because we were too cold...and a little lazy. So on our last night there, we got all bundled up and went to bed, getting ready to wake up at 4:30am to catch an early train back to Athens. Unfortunately that night I couldn't sleep, and ended up waking up at 1:45am. We then caught our train at 6:00am to go down to Athens. Now here's the kicker. Once we got there I was supposed to find the central FedEx to pick up a a package from my mom. However, we soon found that this FedEx was in another city in the middle of nowhere. To make a long story short, we had to take a train, a bus, and a taxi to get to a FedEx that did not have my package. Now there's a waste of three hours!
We went back to Athens and went to the airport to catch our 9:30pm plane to Berlin. We arrived in Berlin, via a very cramped EasyJet plane, to Berlin at 11:30pm. We then caught a bus to take us to the metro station to catch the last metro to our stop. We soon realized upon coming out of the metro that we had no map, and absolutely no idea where we were. Mind you, it was now about 1:00am. We asked a nice kid on the street who actually walked us about a mile to where our hostel was. We check in, took showers and ended up going to sleep at around 2:00am only to catch about 6hrs sleep and leave the next morning on the 11:00am train to Prague where we have been ever since. I think it took us a few days to recuperate from that one. Happy Trails!

Now the pictures:

Camp Meteora:



Xander playing us a tune:



Saying goodbye to Xander:



Amanda bearing the cold:



Look at the temp:



Stuck in the middle of nowhere:



Friends on the train: