The Holiday Inn

The best part of being limited in my food choices is that I can actually compare the quality of the food at each restaurant since I'm basically eating the same dishes (well, appetizers) everywhere. It's brilliant! Thursday night's dinner was--by far--my favorite. The Greek salad was perfect, the grilled mushrooms were just the right texture and had a nice dressing, and the eggplant spread had actual pieces of eggplant and garlic rather than being turned into a mush. It was very exciting. Interestingly, though, it was the most underwhelming bread of the entire trip. Aaron and I predict (with hope) that this could be the end of the aubergine phase of my travels.

Also exciting: we went to both the site of the first modern Olympic Games (1898) AND the 2004 Olympic Stadium!! We've been to so many beautiful historical sites in Athens that I can't even list them all. Or, maybe I could but I'm down to the last few minutes of my free internet time.

Aaron left this morning so my parents are kindly treating me to a night at the Holiday Inn near the airport. It is a very clean and beautiful hotel (with automated curtains!) and it will be a relaxing evening. It took me far too long to get here (2.5 hours for a trip that would take about 20 minutes by cab but it was both cheap and enlightening, I suppose). It is, unfortunately, daylight savings time here tonight so I lose an hour while I sleep ... but, on the bright side, I have to wake up in order to fly to Vienna (where I'm meeting my friend Ben Skerritt) so I suppose it's worth it! I feel desperately as though I've forgotten to relay an interesting/important story but seeing as how I'm running out of time it will just have to wait until next time!