When you start with a 120 Euro cap ride, you know Greece needs money...

@ FRA

Benny arrived at my house Thursday evening fom Berlin, stayed over for one night and we started our journey at 3 o'clock on Friday. Arriving at Frankfurt airport I was pretty nervous, because I knew my luggage was overweight: 20 kg for checked-in bags and 8 kg for carry-ons would have been normal. We had both 23 kg, but the man was nice and did not say a word. However, my backbag had 13.5kg, fortunately I could store the rest in Benny's carry-on. *Uff* on problem solved.

Living Room

Next, we heard that our plane was half an hour late. Actually not too bad, but we only had one hour in Athens from touch down until our train would have left, so half an hour was kinda crucial. Indeed we missed the train by 4 min and it was the last train. After double-checking with our boss there was no othe solution than taking a cap. The taxi driver was insane. His driving skills led to driving between the lanes and not knowing his way in Agioi Theodoroi. Finally, we met Petra, our future employer, who brought us to the apartment.

Kitchen

Toilet No1

Laundry Room

Bathroom No2

My Room

The moment I feared most had come. When the door opened my sight fell into a very clean living room and a big kitchen. My room has a huge closet and we have two bathrooms. Different than expected we DO have a washing machine and do NOT have to go down the street :). The funniest thing is, and I really still do not understand, we cannot flush the toilet paper!!! Anyway... we have a balcony which goes around our whole apartment which is great!! *LIKE* The office is located in the basement, so we literally only have to walk downstairs in the morning (my first working day starts upcoming Monday at 10.00).

Our balcony with ocean view :)

In general it looks nice here. This morning I woke up with the sun and it was 17 degrees, a thin jacket was absolutely enough to walk around in. Acceptable tread compared to freezing -20 C yesterday in Germany.

Since we did not bring much to eat (too much extra weight) we were starving today. Our boss told us yesterday that there was a bigger supermarket not far from here, so we took a walk and after 2km we found it. Inside, our mood went down immediately: the prices here are OUTRAGIOUS!!!! Forget, what I said about the Greek probably don't even notice their crises, just like we didn't when we had it. Bullshit. Frozen pizza for almost 7 euros, joghurt for 3 euros and 1 kg chicken breast for also almost 9 euros. Rediculous! I think there is a LIDL close by, which we have to find soon. However, it is not so easy to find things here, because most of it is in Greek. Oh, well...

<--- All this was 70 Euros, @ Appi Hein or any German discounter it would have been maybe 40 Euros :( 

The penthouse is ready, what about the rest?

Watch the shadows ;)

Tonight we will meet somebody I made contact with beforehand via "couchsurfing". He lives close to Korinthos and will show us around. I am very excited to meet him and am certain that he will give us a lot of inside knowledge to get around a little bit more efficiently ;)

Filakia (=kiss in Greek)