The End and Thank You

This is our last vacation blog.  Thank you for sharing this journey with us. We hope that you have enjoyed the blog.

Debbie still writes a blog but not with the same frequency and about different topics.  After this blog, we will delete your email from the automatic notification unless you send an email or comment that you would like to stay on the list.

Read on for the last blog:

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Debbie and Larry spent a restless night in anticipation of the early shuttle. They received a 3 AM wake up call for the 4 AM shuttle (Debbie does not think that one should have to leave a vacation at any time that starts before 8 AM. )  They were surprised to find that the shuttle had 20 other people going to the airport at 4 AM.  Everyone pretty much everyone sat in a stupor on the bus.

The Athens airport was busy but not that large.  We flew to Zurich for the first leg.  Le Cheap Girl Debbie went into sticker shock in Zurich.  We had a layover in Zurich with time to each lunch.  Larry opted for Burger King.  He purchased a 12 Euro Whopper.  Larry did point out that he could have gotten the Whopper Meal for 16 Euro.  Debbie has decided that she will not be going back to Switzerland even though the view from the plane was great.

The Zurich plane was only half full.  Debbie jumped up and moved as soon as the door closed.  It was a nice flight with no one sitting beside us.  Debbie and Larry had their fill of movies.

By the time that they got to Washington DC, they had been traveling 23 hours and were a little goofy.  Debbie and Larry were able to blast through passport control due to Global Entry.  They picked up their luggage and inquired about changing flights to catch the 5 PM instead of 10:30 PM flight.  It was going to cost an additional $300, required going out to the ticket counter and back through security.  They opted not to change flights.  They proceeded to customs to be tagged by the drug dog.  Debbie had a banana in her backpack.  (Debbie actually thinks that Larry had the issue with the dog but she confessed to the banana). This required going in a special room, explaining what you did, and having your luggage scanned.  (Bananas seemed to be number one violator).  Once we got to security, Larry was pulled aside for water in his backpack.  Goofy describes them well.

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We finally boarded and had our worst travel experience of the whole trip. The plane creaked, bounced you around and was uncomfortable.  Snoring was rampant in the plane for those that could go to sleep.  Larry’s description of Debbie on the plane was someone fidgeting for 3 hours.

Once we landed, everyone rushed off the plane to find the bathrooms closed until you got to baggage claim.  There was a lot of fast walking from the passengers.   Luckily, our bags arrived quickly and we arrived at the house 40 hours after we started.

So in conclusion, we had a wonderful vacation.  We visited 4 countries (counting the US), walked 350 miles plus, visited countless churches, had unforgettable experiences and  a wonderful time.

Thanks to Joyce for arranging so many details.  Thanks to our traveling companions, Jerry, Joyce, Don and Greg for the great time.  Thanks to our readers for going on vacation with us.

 

 

 

Last Touring Day

Athens, Greece

As most of you know, Debbie and Larry have returned from their vacation.  We feel obligated to get them home so will publish a couple more posts.

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We awoke to our last full day of vacation with Larry complaining of a sore throat.   Of course, on a last day one must say farewell to their friends.  So, Larry, Debbie and Joyce made a farewell visit to the pharmacy.  It was apparent Debbie had bonded with the pharmacists.  She acted as an interpreter while the pharmacists supported Debbie in her scolding of Larry and his lack of drinking water.  Sales will be good for the month of October for the pharmacy due to the American tourists.  We didn’t hug when we left (Debbie could tell that they wanted to hug her but were afraid of getting sick).

We decided to go shopping on our last day and used the metro instead of walking.   Athens takes the Metro more seriously than most of the places that we visited.  If you are caught without a ticket or have not validated your ticket, the fine is 60 times the value of the ticket. (this is not a typo)  So, our fine would be 9 X 60 for 540 Euro.  We did feel fairly confident that we had a ticket, it was validated and no one ever checked.  Athens also had lots of people that approach you for money or to sell you something.  Debbie just blows past saying no while Larry sometimes tries to reason with them.  (Your selfie stick will not fit my camera and my wife would break it if I brought one home).

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On we continued for the shopping spree.  Debbie and Joyce sent Larry and Jerry to a restaurant for coffee to wait.  While shopping, the skies opened up and poured rain.  The streets flooded and trapped Joyce and Debbie in a store.  We can not imagine being at the Acropolis in this storm.  The water was about a foot deep in the streets and running fast.  Eventually, Joyce and Debbie made it to the restaurant for lunch.  It was amazing that by the time, lunch was over that the streets had cleared.  They headed back to the flat in time for Debbie and Larry to leave for their hotel.

After much agony, Debbie had decided to take a taxi to their hotel for the night.  Debbie and Larry’s flight left at 6:30 AM which meant that they needed to be at the airport around 4:15.  If they left from the flat, it would be 2:30 in the morning.  Debbie could not envision them walking to the bus at 2:30 dragging a suitcase.  (Someone might ask them for money and not in a nice way)  Thus, the hotel.  Debbie downloaded a taxi app, told Larry to get ready and hit schedule.  “There will be a taxi at your door in 1 minute”.  One minute!   Really does a taxi come in 1 minute?”  Why, yes it does.

They hurriedly said goodbye, threw their bags in the taxi and were off to the hotel.  They were both pretty excited by a shower with a shower curtain and some of the amenities.

The Greek Boys – Epilogue

It’s taken a long time to revisit our harrowing return to Richmond. The seasoned travelers among you will think this is normal these days I’m sure.

Off to the airport at 4 AM excited about finally returning home.  We had an uneventful cab ride to the airport with little traffic and on entering and finding we were in the right terminal asked someone where Air France was.  They pointed at the longest line in the airport but we were undaunted with plenty of time to spare.

Athens to Paris was relatively uneventful and I couldn’t wait to get to Paris airport for some intense last minute shopping!  Ever hopeful we boarded the plane, got our goods stowed and buckled up for the two hour jaunt to Paris. Only 2 hours so we threw everything into the overhead compartment.  When the pilot came over the loudspeaker and gave us our arrival time we realized that what we thought was a 2 hour flight was really 3 hour flight.  In another minute we realized that we were going to gain an hour going west and with the time change it was really a 4 hour flight!

We settled into our uncomfortable seats for the first leg of the trip, already fidgeting over the thought of four hours in them.  The flight was long but uneventful and we finally found ourselves in Charles de Gaulle Airport and ready for shopping, shopping, shopping!!!  We had our gate and terminal number and found ourselves with the same problem we had the last time we were here: Where’s our terminal???  After padding back and forth and after a few flights of stairs we found the most wonderful machine – or so it appeared.  You simply showed it your boarding pass and it pops up a map showing you how to get to your gate! Terrific! (?)  Well no; believe it or not it said, “You can’t get there from here!”  We finally found someone who knew, #1 where they were, and #2 how we had to travel to get to our gate.  So we were told to walk outside and turn right (no sign for Terminal 3 of course) and to walk to the next building.  This involved traveling several yards to a busy street, crossing it and lo and behold, it actually said Terminal 3 in big letters!  Overjoyed we entered to find a huge terminal packed with high end restaurants and shops and our gate was even close by for a change.  With the mayhem finally over we settled in with two 14€ Heinekens and an overpriced, if delicious lunch.

That done it was time to shop. A big electronics store was the most captivating and I discovered a wonderful new travel adaptor and after a short struggle managed to get it ordered more cheaply from Amazon.  We waited our time by recharging our computers and phones in some really comfortable chairs until our flight. Our gate changed at the last minute, but at least it was in the same terminal.

We joined a raucous school group who proved to be well behaved once in the air…until they spotted New York City.

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Even with my Global Entry getting me a little ahead of Don, I knew we were in for a rough ride at JFK.  Getting the bags was the easy part. A short 20–25 minute wait and we had them, but we’d lost an hour with an Air France delay.

We found the way to re-check the bags. Another horrendous line. Computer slow and the baggage belt is broken, lots of yelling and screaming so we handed over our passports for new boarding passes and were told to “Just leave your bags in the order you came to the counter. We could see that 2 or 3 more people’s luggage and they’d be out in the hall!  So we kissed our luggage goodbye as I had my umbrella in Athens and headed to security.  The lines were horrendous and since Don had his Global Entry stolen it was even longer.  They began calling out for anyone with less than 2 hours before their flight, which we were.  Not to worry, we were told, we’d all be met by a special Delta representative after we passed security who would expedite everyone.  Great idea but after another 30 minutes wasted at security no one was to be found to help.  We finally found someone who could tell us where our gate was, or should I say where the BUS to our gate was.  The driver seemed to be totally lost which didn’t surprise us at all as none of the buildings had any identification on them.  He doubled back around and we’re giving him the benefit of the doubt that he did so to get us closer to the building; yeah, right!

Finally on the plane we had a nice a flight to Richmond, poor Don so exhausted that he slept the entire way.  I would have kissed the ground on landing in Richmond but was afraid that once down, I’d just go to sleep on the tarmac.

To say we were glad to get home is an understatement but we’re ready to begin a new adventure.

Many thanks to Joyce, you too Don, for planning such a wonderful vacation!

Those Are My Pistachios

We decided to island hop with a day trip to Aegina.  The island of Aegina  is one of the Saronic Islands  (17 mi) from Athens. Tradition derives the name from Aegina the mother of the hero Aeacus, who was born on the island and became its king. During ancient times Aegina was a rival of Athens, the great sea power of the era. (We find this last statement difficult to believe).  It is about an hour from Athens by ferry.

We made our way to the dock to purchase our tickets.  The most difficult part was deciding which ship was ours.  We truly understand the phrase “It is Greek to me”.  The Cyrillic languages has no relationship to English.  We had the Greek spelling which required you to look at each symbol to figure out if it matched.  We took the easy way out and followed the line of people and were lucky that we did not end up in Turkey.  We boarded the ferry although Debbie was somewhat leery after her last ferry incident where the other 3 left her locked out on the deck alone in a storm.  Our trip was uneventful with lots of pictures.

Once we arrived, everyone stood on the ship taking pictures until Joyce noticed that people were pouring off the ship.  She shouted “We have to get off the ship as they are only docking for 10 minutes – Hurry”.  The group hustled around and dashed to the exit with our stuff.  The group was unceremoniously dumped on the dock.  (The whole 10 minute thing was just a rumor.  The ship stayed another 30 minutes).

We discovered the island’s claims to fame were

  1. A temple
  2. A monastery
  3. Pistachios

As you know by now, when in doubt the group looks for a church to visit.  Ekklisia Isodia Theotokou is a small church which sits at the end of the harbor street.  They then inspected all the restaurants by the docks until settling on one with two cats.  (Joyce’s children:  We caught both your Mom and Dad feeding the cats.  You have the potential for cat problems when they get older).

After we dragged Joyce away from the cats, she was able to negotiate a taxi deal.  Joyce convinced the taxi driver to take the 4 of us to the monastery and ruins, wait for us 30 minutes at each stop and then return, all for 30 euros.

First stop on the tour was the monastery of Agios Nektarios.  Church Moment: Built for the most recent Greek Orthodox saint – Agios Nektarios – miracle- working saint, who died in 1920. It is an impressive complex.  Our driver let us out and went for coffee for 30 minutes.  Since we had 30 minutes, we have plenty of pictures from almost every view.  When he returned the driver stepped out of the car and shouted “I am here”.  It was effective as we all scurried back from all around the church.
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Next stop was the ancient ruins of the Temple of Aphaia.  History Moment: The temple was located within a sanctuary complex dedicated to the goddess Aphaia. Formerly known as the Temple of Jupiter Panhellenius, the great Doric temple is now recognized as dedicated to the mother-goddess Aphaia.  Few people and a great spot for pictures.

After our self tour, we went shopping at the pistachio store.  Pistachios are raised on the island and the store gave out samples (good marketing strategy that worked).  Debbie and Larry would have bought more but realized that it would have to be carried back in luggage.

At the end of the day, we stood in the rain waiting for our ship.  On the way back, no one was particularly interested in pictures so set inside.  Once again everyone but Debbie fell asleep (you know that you dis and Debbie has pictures as proof).

We did think that some of the families should have given their children more guidance.  One family had a little girl (let’s call her Gina about 6 years old) that sidled up to Larry, sat down and started speaking Greek to him.  Larry nodded his head and smiled until she eventually left.    As we were docking, she walked up to Debbie’s table, smiled and her little hand slowly inched towards Debbie’s sack containing her unopened bag of pistachios.  Gina’s hand opened the sack and slowly started dragging the bag of pistachios out.  Debbie did not smile and nod her head.  She grabbed the pistachios and held to her chest saying “No, no, no, no, no, no.  (Debbie is not a pushover.  She worked hard for those nuts, carrying them through the rain – you just don’t get to smile and take them from her).

Larry thinks that this is the closest that we got to a pickpocket.

 

 

Going to the Library

We weren’t fully recovered from the sick day but felt that we could venture out.  We checked our Athens City Ticket and decided to try something not too strenuous.  (Debbie said that she still had to get up early and that probably Joyce needed more rest for her cold. )

The first stop was Kerameikos.   History Moment:  Kerameikos was actually the cemetery of ancient Athens and was  in use from the 9th century BC until Roman times. The area took its name from “keramos”, which means pottery in Greek, from the numerous pottery workshops that existed in the area before it was turned into a cemetery.  Yes, we went to another cemetery.  (Debbie thinks she is turning into her brother).  This cemetery was nice and shady with a museum, some olive trees and a bathroom.

One thing that we have noticed is the number of stray cats.  They were everywhere around the ruins.  Debbie’s Interpretation:  There are a lot of cats and Greek people are cat people.  The cats don’t jump on your table or lap so that is okay.  (Debbie for the record is a dog person.   Joyce has the potential to go full blown cat lady. )

Our second stop was the library of Hadrian.  History Moment: The library was built 132-134 AD as a gift to the city of Athens from the Roman Emperor Hadrian.   We liked the library because there were not that many tourists and we could a better view of Hadrian’s wall.   The wall views showed how some of the later houses incorporated the wall as part of their house.

After the library, we stopped to eat.  Jerry ordered the meat platter and was not able to finish it all.  (It was surprising that any meat was left in Athens after that platter was cooked).   He brought home meat for the whole village that night with take-away.   Jerry and his backpack were very popular with the cats in the afternoon.

Our final destination was the Roman Agora.  History Moment: The Roman Agora consists of a large, open-air courtyard surrounded by colonnades on all four sides. On the eastern side, there were also a series of shops. On the southern side was a fountain. The main entrance was on the west (Gate of Athena Archegetis), and there was a second entrance (or propylon) on the east, leading up to a public latrine and the “Tower of the Winds.”  The nickname “Tower of the Winds” was derived from the personifications of the 8 winds carved on the 8 sides of the building.  The Roman Agora became the main market of the city, taking over many of the commercial functions of the Greek Agora.  What is nice about the Roman Agora was very few crowds and everything was fairly open.

We noticed some direction issues that day and suffered bouts of irritability.  These bouts included the following.

  • Yelling at motorcycle riders to get out of the way and let us cross.
  • Stink eyed (Yes, it is a word) other patrons in the restaurant for acting incorrectly
  • Quacking at people
  • Shoving a man onto the train to make room for their sick colleagues (The colleagues pretended that they did not know anyone else on the train especially the shover)
  • Room clearing coughing fits

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For the good of our health and Athens, we called it an early day.  Plus Jerry was building a following with the strays.

No One Standing

If  you are current with the blog, then you know that Debbie was teetering on the edge of being sucked into the sick dimension .   The symptoms were sore throat, couching and hacking.    A few professed to fever.  Each person diagnosed themselves.  Sinus, allergies, a cold (Debbie calls it the crud as an all encompassing compromising term. ). Debbie tried to distance her self but it is difficult when all the people at the table are hacking and coughing away.  She dealt a few drugs from her medicine kit to different members but had started considering a hoarding plan.  Debbie had been to the pharmacy with various members of the party and her trusty “Itranslate” application.  “Sore throat medicine?” Italian ” medicina mal di gola?”

So as you might have guessed, Debbie fell kicking and screaming into the Sick Dimension to join Jerry and Joyce.  Larry had already emerged on the other side although he did refuse to give up his toilet paper roll used as tissues.

We all woke up and sat glumly on the couch each clutching their tissue of choice.  Toilet paper, paper towels and disposable tissue packs.  Debbie enlisted Larry to walk to the pharmacy with her since she had no sense of direction.  There was fear that she might get lost  and  be found sniveling on the streets with no tissues.  Joyce sent a shopping list of drugs with them.  They stopped at the grocery store and purchased a real box of tissues for Joyce and Debbie plus their own box of decongestants at the pharmacy (Everyone lived in fear that on the next plane  their head will explode upon descent.  Debbie noticed that people started to whimper when discussing the upcoming flights).

Back they glumly sat again but this time with real tissues.  Everyone considered how the day was going to go.  No one could imagine walking several miles until someone suggested a break for the day.   We don’t remember who suggested it but everyone wanted to say it.  Suddenly people perked up.  “We could have a TV binge day”.  They all disappeared to reappear in different clothes with blankets.  (There is a rumor that Joyce never changed out of her pajamas the whole day.
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Thus our day ended with no pictures ,everyone clutching tissues, decongestant for everyone and a coughing contest of who has the worst sounding cough. (Joyce had the “I am bringing this up from the bottom of my toes cough” while Debbie had the “I am choking and can’t stop without throwing up on someone” cough as people fled the room yelling “She’s going to blow!”.)

 

Whistler Blowers

Today was the day that we visited the Acropolis.  History Moment:  The Acropolis of Athens is an ancient citadel located on an extremely rocky outcrop above the city of Athens and contains the remains of several ancient buildings of great architectural and historic significance, the most famous being the Parthenon. The word acropolis comes from the Greek words “highest point, extremity”) and πόλις (polis, “city”). The Parthenon is a former temple, on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece, dedicated to the goddess Athena, whom the people of Athens considered their patron.   If you go to Athens, this is the sight that you want to see.

We started out early to try to beat the crowds and with jackets and coats. (Actually, Debbie kept her sweater on the longest.  She told the others she needed the sweater because that she wasn’t huffing as much as they were.  There was a response about Debbie going slow, blah, blah)    The higher that we got the harder the wind blew and colder it got.   Once on top, the group began to drift apart.  Debbie and Joyce listened to descriptive podcasts (intellectual)  while Jerry and Larry took pictures (let’s say artistic – Joyce actually did both.  Debbie’s cell phone shots don’t count – although they were magnificent).

The Acropolis included another temple, the Erechtheion.  Joyce had told Larry and Jerry to meet at this temple.  They found Debbie at the Erechtheion because she was huddled by the wall and a tiny worker’s building for wind protection.  This little building had a door with a window that said private where inside a man sat looking out the window at the temple.  The building looked like someone sat a large man on a stool and then built 3 walls and a door around him.  We don’t think you could turn around in the room.   Larry, and Jerry joined Debbie huddling by the wall.   The man in the room kept looking at them suspiciously (actually, there was only way to look out of the little building) so they decided to go stand downwind behind the Parthenon.  (It was really because they were just cold.  This proved to be a major mistake.  Really?  How hard could it be? ) They kept checking by the temple but never saw Joyce.  They  encountered the first whistle blower.  As they were headed for the new waiting area, a lady blew a whistle.  It was a bit like yelling “Freeze” in freeze tag.  Everyone on the Acropolis froze.  Everyone looked around trying to figure out who blew the whistle.  We finally decided that it was one of the Japanese tour guides that was rounding up her group. (We didn’t know what everyone else decided but they started moving).

We could not find Joyce so, Debbie decided to circle the entire top of the Acropolis (no small feat – her scarf blew off and she had to chase it around the Acropolis) and Larry and Jerry were gone from the  place that she had left them.  After a while, Larry, Debbie and Jerry, found each other and decided to travel like a pack of dogs.  We received a text message from Joyce that asked if we were at the steps so we answered “No, we are behind the Parthenon but we would come to the steps”.  Only part of the message went through so we changed places.  Finally, everyone stood on the steps waiting for Joyce until she appeared.  We did hear the whistle blower again.  (The tour guide must be having trouble.) The total search took 45 to 60 minutes.

Once reunited the group proceeded down to the Areopagus (Mars Hill).  It is a bare marble hill next to the Acropolis .  History Moment:  It was here that the Apostle Paul delivered his famous speech about the identity of “the Unknown God.”  There was a nice path up and around the hill but Debbie and Larry got so excited that they scrambled up and down the hill.  (Debbie doesn’t know what happened to them, other tourists were shouting “Watch out for the slippery rocks”  but no they were all over it.  What happened to Safety first?)
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After standing in the wind for a couple of hours and having been exposed to 3 weeks of the crud, Debbie started to cough.

As they descended the Acropolis, they found the Greek Agora.  History Moment:  The word Agora  is Greek for ‘open place of assembly.  It was an interesting place with little wind, shade,  many different buildings and fewer people.  It included a Greek stoa which is a covered walkway or portico, commonly for public use, (The open shopping center), a drainage ditch,  museum, a temple, Church of the Holy Apostles, and lots of ruins.  While we walked through the Agora, we heard the whistle again.  This time it was a different lady sitting in the shade except she yelled at people.  We realized that when you did something incorrect in the historic sites that the guards blew a whistle.  (Debbie is thinking that this would be a good retirement job.  You sit in a chair in the shade and when someone does something wrong, blow a whistle.  The group is also thinking of getting a whistle for Joyce to direct the group.  The whistle would have helped everyone find Joyce much quicker).

We had lunch and scored another free dessert!  Debbie was thrilled.  However, both Joyce and Debbie were both coughing and Joyce has slowed down considerably so they called it an early day.

Athen’s City Walk

Athens Walk

We spent the first day in Athens getting acquainted with the city.  We were in a great location but it took us awhile to figure out where we were.  The first landmark that we found was the Panathenaic Stadium.  Cultural Moment:  The Panathenaic Stadium hosted the 1st Olympic Games of the modern era in 1896 and is entirely made of marble.  It was also used in the 2004 Olympics.   Once we found the stadium, it was easy to get back on track to take a city walk of Athens.  Below are some of the sights that we saw:

  • Athens National Gardens – We like to go to Gardens in every city that we visit.
  • Greek Pharmacy  – Third pharmacy stop this trip.  Ask us for our trip advisor status for pharmacies in Athens, Venice, Rome and Naples.
  • Hellenic Parliament building – Parliament building of Greece
  • Evzones –  The greek elite guard who guard the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.  There is a ceremonial changing of the guard every hour.  Larry was thrilled that he got to have his picture taken with the Evzones  especially since he had to rush to get to the front of the line.  He also wants some of those spiffy shoes.
  • Church of Kapnikarea –  a Greek Orthodox church and one of the oldest churches in Athens.  It sits in the middle of a pedestrian mall.  This is a really small church.
  • Athens Cathedral – “Mētrópolis”, is the cathedral church of the Archbishop of Athens and all Greece.  In other words, this is the Vatican of the Greek Orthodox Church.
  • Church of Agios Eleftherios – is a Byzantine-era church located at the Mitropolis square, next to the Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens.  This is a really, really small church.
  • Adrianou Street – Pedestrian mall Shopping street (We like this street)
  • Hadrianopolis – The Arch of Hadrian divides the Greek Athens and Hadrian’s planned Roman area.  (Debbieopolis has a nice ring to it.)  We saw the remains of Zeus temple.

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We went back home and were thrilled that we could watch English Netflixs.

Athens

We started our day early with a taxi waiting at the door.  Joyce finally succumbed to the crud that everyone else had.   (Debbie is feeling paranoid and somewhat like the designated survivor.  Joyce told Debbie and Larry to not sit with them in the airport.)  Debbie and Larry were quite happy with Olympic Airlines.  Bigger seats, free snacks and free drinks.  (They did watch to see if Jerry took the food before they took snacks).  Meanwhile, Jerry was being quizzed by other passengers if he was contagious.   The woman in front asked him 3 times if he was contagious.  (He does sound contagious).

They arrived at the flat and were pleased with the accommodations.  There is one interesting bathroom.  (Debbie says that no one in Europe seems to have a shower curtain).  The interesting bathroom just has a shower hose in the corner with a hole in the floor.  (So, Debbie with her shower history has the potential to hose down the entire room with water – She has been banned from this room).  Thus far, only Jerry was brave enough to take a shower in that room.   The flat reminded us of our Grandmother’s house.  It has high ceilings and a full dining room set.  We might throw a dinner party.  Jerry and Joyce scored all the storage units in the flat and in response, the Engs have confiscated the drying racks for storage.  There is a washer but the dryer does not work that well.  But, there  is a clothes line in the back that everyone but Larry has tested.  (Larry says that he has a working system so why change?)

We went to a restaurant, Piggy Popoulo, for dinner.   Shockingly, Debbie really liked Greek food.  She cleaned her plate and the others did not.  (Are we is a topsy turvy world?).  Most of all she has been to three different restaurants and all yes all have given them free desserts.  Greece also has giant donuts.  No more pasta or pizza for Debbie.  Give her one of those kabob things.   She even tried fried feta.  The others are not sure what has happened to her.
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Naples Final Day

Jerry was still down for the count on the final day in Naples.  This left Larry, Joyce and Debbie on their own.    Joyce also started showing symptoms of the crud.  She lost her voice.  (Debbie called Joyce the puppet master as she would whisper her questions and then Debbie and Larry would  go ask the question. (Just an FYI – Italy was very stressful on the Engs.  Larry bought some vodka and drinks a shot every night while Debbie carried chocolate in her purse).

Today they had two goals.  The Naples National Archaeological Museum and the Castle Elmo.

Cultural Moment:  Naples National Archaeological Museum – is a museum that  contains a large collection of Roman artifacts from Pompeii, Stabiae and Herculaneum.  It is the most important Italian archaeological museum and is considered one of the most important in the world.  (We think that Naples made that part up).

Okay this museum needs some serious organizational help.

Joyce’s Puppets:  We have the Napoli Pass do we have to go to the ticket office?

Info Desk:  Eye roll “Yes”  (Now why would this be if we already have a ticket?  We think that she was just mad because we broke up the flirting).

Joyce’s Puppets:  Do we have to get our tickets here?

Ticket Office:  Yes – (Turns the ticket over and writes a date on the back.  Oh that was hard – )

Joyce’s Puppets:  Where do  we get an English audio guide?

Ticket Office:  Here

JP (Jocye’s Puppets):  Good we will take an English guide

Ticket Office:  We don’t have any now come back in 20 minutes

JP:  Do we have to go to the end of the line?

Ticket Office:  Yes, you must go to the end of the 100 people standing in line

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JP:  Can we rent a locker?

Locker Check:  No, only for backpacks

JP  Can we check this? (Larry’s bag that he wears on this back)

Locker Check:  No, it is not a backpack (We beg to differ, it is on his back).

By the time that we got in with no audio guide and our original tickets, the group was not super happy with the museum.

Our next stop was Castel Sant’Elmo.

Cultural Moment:  Castel Sant’Elmo is a medieval fortress located on a hilltop overlooking Naples.  The name “Sant’Elmo” derives from a former 10th-century church, Sant’Erasmo, shortened to “Ermo” and, finally altered to “Elmo”. It presently serves as a museum, exhibition hall, and offices.  (It is not the Elmo in Sesame Street.  We know that you want to ask).

We were pretty excited when we walked up and the attendant flagged us down, told us that the castle was free today, and gave us a ticket.  (Les Cheap Girls were thrilled).  Cool castle and it was free.  So we started to walk, walked some more and then some more.  (Debbie says if she lived in that castle that she would have to ride a horse into and out of the castle everyday. )  We eventually got to the top of the castle with some art museums and great views.

By the time we hit the summit, Joyce was fading fast.  On our way home, we hit the gelato shops for a farewell cup.  We could aslo see that Joyce was fading fast. We almost had a disaster when the puppets got off the Metro and Joyce didn’t because she was asleep.    The puppets were yelling “Joyce, Joyce!)  Just in time she staggered off.  (At this point we officially declared Joyce, as woman down).

You know the drill that night.  Eating all the leftover food and frantically packing.