Tuesday 24-06 - A new start.

We woke up to a new day and hopefully, a better day than the last. The bags were left at the hostel as we walked to Syntagma square to use the post office. We sent back presents for people. They are too heavy and take up too much space to carry around. We had the same lady at the desk as last time. I don't think she liked us very much the first time and even less now. She was also rough when handling our parcels. It was only after we had sent our package into the Greek postal system that Josh remember to put his ipod in there. He was annoyed and now had to send it separately to unite with his Mac.

We had late brekkie at Everest (cheese pie and spinach-ricotta pie). Then to browse the giant virgin-esque mega store Public. We walked back to fetch our bags and then back again to the Syntagma metro. We seemed to be walking that path a lot that day.





We flew from Athens to Warsaw. There was a tasty snack on board with a chocolate bar and some cheeses and mystery meat which I didn't touch. Then there was an unfortunate 5 hour transit wait to get to Krakow. Damn. It seems like such a good idea to save money on flights, until you have to do the waiting. We got lost in the Warsaw airport trying to get checked in for our next flight. There was no decent signage so we walked back and forward with no luck. No one was helpful, not even VAS returns guy with eyes that floated off to the side as he spoke to us.



Eventually we found out we had to go backwards through security to get to the main check in gates and that we did. Then back through security. We browsed bookshops. Josh got Harry Potter : Half Blood prince and we picked up a sudoku mag as well. We sat and sat and sat.

When we passed through the gate we had to stand in a cold, open bus for 15 minutes before it would take us across tarmac to the plane. It was 10-30 at night in Poland and I was still dressed for the Greece sun. I shivered onto the plane. The flight itself was little over an hour. They gave us chocolate bars that became the next mornings breakfast.

We landed and got onto another cold bus that took us to the tiny domestic arrivals area. Tired and just wanting bed, we taxied to the Blue Bells apartments. We crashed in some of the most comfortable beds of the whole trip. The pillows were huge and sift and the doona was amazing. I fell right asleep.