italy -> greece

This entry was meant to be quite long and descriptive but I've been too busy playing the speed-of-light-flist-skim game and my internet time has almost run out, so briefly: we have finally left Sicily, and we spent an amazing day at the Valley of the Temples in Agrigento (perfect weather, almost no other tourists) and then took an overnight ferry to Patras, then a bus to Athens! Where we are currently. At a very noisy but very central and comfortable hostel. We celebrated by eating a meal that was not pizza (there was even MEAT in it) and enjoying the fact that though the weather is cooler, Athens is full of helpful people who speak excellent English.

And it's not like it's all that cold compared to London or Prague. Sicily was just incredibly warm -- middle of winter, EIGHTEEN DEGREES, and the wimpy natives were all wearing coats and scarves and staring at us as we capered joyously down the street in our light tops. WE ARE CANBERRANS. WINTER ISN'T WINTER UNLESS IT'S LESS THAN FIVE DEGREES.

PS - happy Obama day, Americans <3