Top of the Morn to you all. It is St Pattys day and I am currently in Greece. If you are wondering if they celebrate it, no they do not as a country. But we were able to find an Irish pub and have a pint of guinness. We did have an action packed day today. We visited the Acropolis and the sites around that. Let's just say the view from the top of that is amazing and that isn't describing it enough. There are so many people here that are from the States and Canada. It was fun interacting with other fluent English speakers as we made our way through the site.
We also went to the Acropolis museum before we visited the Acropolis. This gave us some insight and let us watch a video which helped explain the building and such. It is amazing the amount of things they could recover. Even though a lot of the things were broken or missing, it is amazing to see the ancient history.
Again we are hounded by "teachers and tour guides" that want absurd amounts of money. One lady started at 100 euro or 140 us and talked down to 70 euro but we still said no. Another aproached us and said 30 for the group, we thought about it for about 10 seconds and said no again. I swear these people are relentless in asking, they just want to get the yes no matter how cheap they have to go.
I am heading back to Istanbul tonight around 7 and then home early Saturday morning. It has been a fun trip even with its ups and downs. I learned a lot and lived a lot. There is a lot I can take from this trip and I will to make sure that I don't repeat the same mistakes. The people I have met over this short amount of time will change the future for me. They have each taught me important lessons about life and I will take those and apply them to my everyday life. Well I shall blog later, one last time in the Istanbul Airport if I can. If not it will be the first post back in the USA late at night.
We also went to the Acropolis museum before we visited the Acropolis. This gave us some insight and let us watch a video which helped explain the building and such. It is amazing the amount of things they could recover. Even though a lot of the things were broken or missing, it is amazing to see the ancient history.
Again we are hounded by "teachers and tour guides" that want absurd amounts of money. One lady started at 100 euro or 140 us and talked down to 70 euro but we still said no. Another aproached us and said 30 for the group, we thought about it for about 10 seconds and said no again. I swear these people are relentless in asking, they just want to get the yes no matter how cheap they have to go.
I am heading back to Istanbul tonight around 7 and then home early Saturday morning. It has been a fun trip even with its ups and downs. I learned a lot and lived a lot. There is a lot I can take from this trip and I will to make sure that I don't repeat the same mistakes. The people I have met over this short amount of time will change the future for me. They have each taught me important lessons about life and I will take those and apply them to my everyday life. Well I shall blog later, one last time in the Istanbul Airport if I can. If not it will be the first post back in the USA late at night.
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