Munich was fun! Zurich is far to expensive.. and Athens is Amazing!!

I left off at walking around with the Canadian girl..
That girls bothered me a little bit, or maybe a lot..
Ha ha we walked amto the town hall which is beautifle!! And met her friend, who was studying in Munich, I was super hungry so I had to get some food then we went to a beer harden And I had a water and they got a beer! I know doesn't sound right but I didn't feel like drinking an spending the money so what ever..
I basically listened to them talk girl talk and drama drama drama!!!
I couldn't relate with them and just wasn't having a great time, so I told them I was going to meet somebody, which I was but not till later!
and I was looking forward to it! It was the girl i hung out with from couch surfers! Her name is Stephanie and she's a cool girl!
Any ways when I left the Canadian girl and her friend I went to the dm which is a store hygenics and what not, and I got my self some shower gel and tooth paste! Then I went down the street to my hostel!
I got my stuf out of luggage and had about an hour to kill! So I relaxed a little bit Hung out in the Lounge area and sent a couple messages!
I had to meet Stephanie at her house at seven so
I cought the tram at about 6:40 which got me to her house around perfect timing!
Her house was pretty easyto find but you have to really look ha ha it's not like in America driving with your lights on high beam asking the passenger if theh can see the numbers on the house! :)
But I found the complex pushed the button with her name on it and I was good to go!
Stephanie is so friendly, I enjoyed my stay with her! She let me take a shower, and just made menfeel right at home!
Anyways as soon as she was ready we headed out to her friends house for some wine and pizza!!! Mmmmmmm it was good!
Once agian I offered to pay but they said no please just be our guest! We chatted it up and had a good time with friends and room mate! Then we headed out to a work party for stephanies work party! It was really nice of her or her friend to add me as there plus one! There was a big guestlist!
When I think of work party it's not exactly how this on was! I had si muh fun ha ha we danced all night after our free welcome drink! And it was just good times! It was like clubbing pretty much!
I payed 10.50 for a jack and coke and almost had a heart attack.... But what do you do..
We left the work party at around one-ish and headed back to stephanies flat, and had a nice conversation about random things, like family and life which was interesting!
We ended up getting to bed around 2 a.m which was kind of late considering what time Stephanie had to get up.. And I woke up a litle after she did around 7:30 I think..
But I was good to go we had coffee and she made an amazing pretzel with ham and cheese! Mmmmmmm
And plus I go a good night sleep her couch nicely fold out and is super Cumfy!
Stephanie had to head out to work but insisted that Id like to stay or need a shower just to do so! So I thanked her and gave her a hug, and she was on her way.
I finished my pretzel and packed up my stuff, and tried to tidy things up a bit, which was practically nothing because she keeps things very neet and clean!
I left About 45 min after she did and went walking with my pack!
I had a bout three hours before I caught catch a train!
I walked down a very nice street in Munich past the univerty and just enjoyed the 45 min walk I took! I went to the post to send off some random things, then went next door and had sone burger king which I quickly regretted after..
Its expensive and no good..
I feel lime junk food is your only option 80% of the time...
I'm gonna gt better at making snacks or carry fruit and healthier things to snack on to keep me going!
But any ways I sti had about fifty minutes to kill so I put in some head phone and went out front with my Luna sticks! It made time go much faster and I was on a train to Zurich before I knew it!
The train was very very crowed due to all the flight cancelations, but no big deal the two ladies I was faceing seemed to be very nice and the girl next to me slept untill the last hour..
but the last hour was soo cool we all go to talking about my trip and what they have done and wher there féin and what not! And this one lady older lady was soooo sweet, but spoke very little English..
And about 20 minutes before Zurich the other two ladies got o the train leaving me and the sweet ladie speaking little English ha ha!
But she shared a little sandwich with me and we talked the best we could! I have her laughing, and she pulled out her dictionary and we made I work!
Ha ha we got a picture together and my camera was dead... Sad but she gonna send me the pictures because we exchanged information, I gave her a postcard of Nevada and were gonna keep in touch Here and there! She's a sweet older woman!
When she got off the train she was taking pics of me inside the train lol and I did the heart symbol and I think the peace sign but i cant wait to see the pics!
So that was fun!
when I got to zurich I went pretty much new how to get to the hostel! I made my way there and tried to find a store so I could cook and save money! Yea right!!
I found a store and bought a very small loaf of bread, a little ham, turkey, rice, and 4 eggs for 22 swiss franks!
I was sad... I pulled out fifty Swiss franks from the ATM outside the store and already almost half was gone....
So I mosied to my hostel which was tucked in a little Allie way, and spent the rest of my Swiss franks plus ten euros...
Zurich sucks, like really bad! Unless your a bazillionare...
And even then I'm not stoaked on it...
I didn't even go out! I talked to quite a few random people, tried to use the Internet that wouldn't work and ended up going to bed around ten thirty..
I made a about five sandwiches that are as basic as they get to make it all the way to Athens and maybe till tomorrow!
Im not one to complain but come on.... How is that enjoyable... The hostel was shit for 35 Swiss franks.. Wichita is outragous..
A meal at mc donalds would cost you right around 16 American dollors, and you couldn't find a 12 oz soda for under 4 Swiss frank it's just shit....
So long story short I basically hid in my hostel and woke up and was gonna walk around but I pretty much said f it, I Tom three pics and went to the train station to get a ticket to the airport which takes 8 min and cost me 6.50 Swiss franks.... Ughhhh
I wen from bratislava to Vienna for 11 euros! I'm confused..
But any ways I got thru the crazyness of the giant air port, but it wasn't to bad actually and now I sitting here waiting for my flight which is in 45 min!
I can't wait to Leave zurich!!!
I would never come back! Ever!
All they care about here is money!!! Really...
So all be In Bulgaria by 3 pm an Athens by ten I hope!
But i know for sure I'm leaving here which makes me happy! I talked to people stuck here cause there flights.... I couldn't do it.... I'd walk to another country before I stayed in Zurich...
All up date when I can find Internet, but untill then all keep writing!!
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so the airport in sofia, Bulgaria is very small... And they don't take euros and I've been begged by four taxi driver s to let them give me a quick and very cheap tour of Bulgaria.. Ha ha it's funny!
But you can motor a HUGE difference from flying out of Zurich and into sofia!
The ones rich and ones poor.. Ha ha
Flying out a nice bus brought us to the plane landing well a piece of sh** but picked us up!
The diversity on this small cotinent is un real!
The flight was nice tho everything was in Bulgarian, and partly and quickly translate to English! And we got a sandwhich, candy bar, and a glass of wine!
And has a perfect landing, matter a fact every one started clapping :)
Going thru customs was easy and now I'm waiting to check in!
I kinda wish I could at Least go to the city, but it looked pretty rough flying in ha ha!
The flight to Greece was nice!! Got another meal ha ha, but we flew thru the clouds which is always awsome I think!
and the about ten minutes before landing you would just see little, and big islands all over! It was cool!!
We landed on the big island, an I had to take a metro that to the city which took about an hour and when I finally got of at the stop I was like WOW! And then I was like WOW! And might had said it one more time! Ha ha I looked up at the giant hill where the Parthenon and acropolis!
I tryed to take some pics but they wernt to great at night..
But I found my hostel down a littles street not to far from the mertro stop!
I checked in and the girl that checked me in was from orgeon she's really cool!
But getting to my room was easy, but getting in it wasn't..
Ha ha she gave me the wrong key to the gated door I shut beging me for some reason, and when i got to my room the key didn't work.. So I went to back to reception which is next door and I couldn't open the gate to Leave the building because she have menthe wrong key.. Ha ha it was rediculous!
I was stuck in between my room and the street..
I literally waited twentie minutes unit some body came in and asked me what I'm doing.. Oh you know just hanging out in this tagged up hall way cause I can't get in my room or back to the reception to get it fixed... They laughed and I felt good to get on the other side of that stupid gate!
The girl was like oh I'm soo sorry... He he oops..
what ever I want a free hour of Internet ha ha!
But anyways that was just kinda funny just getting to the hostel after 7 hours of travel..
The first night in Athens was pretty fun!
I had a beer at the roof top bar where we have an amazing view of the parthenon and acropolies! It's cool!!! All lit up and every one just hangs out and chats! I've met a bunch of cool peeps!
The roof bar closes at mid night so we went out to another club type bar, which was but he drinks are pricey and the people tend to do more talking than dancing... We danced! But it was just our group of 7 or so..
So I eventually decided I was gonna head back and it turned into a group of us goingto get chocolate crapes which I didn't Have, but I did my self a very nice and cheap panini!
Then headed back for bed!
I woke up around nine and made t down for breakfast! Mmm it was pretty good for being free! You get capaciunos, cereal, and bread! It works and fills me until lunch!
I stared my day by doing some laundy, and it was five euros! Just to wash, he'll no was I using there dryer fo another five euros.. So I hung all my clothes on the balconly and called it good!
The rest of the day i ended up walking around for a while with a kid named mat from austraila! He's a cool kid, we walked up to the Parthenon, and acropolies! Ha ha i tripped over a turtle on the way up! Seriously! I took a picture with my little buddy and sent him back on his way! I don't understand how the turtles live on a mountian? Where's there water? Idk, but there cool and you see them quite a bit!
went to another temple, and ended up back on the city streets! We walked thru heaps of people selling stuff,And I actually ended up buying some old Arabic bill, idk it was cheap and looked cool!
We thought we were headed to the hostel but ended up getting lost in the never ending streets and people of Athens! This is the most dense city I have ever been in! Really it's crazy!!!
Getto on one street busy on the next! Meat, and frui markets, illigals selling stuff every where! It's something else!
We finay just found a metro station and got back on track by taking the metro right to the stop our hostel is by!
and we went to the store to grab some cheap Dinner that Matt and I could split!
Ha ha finding a normal store is impossible, some "markets" are better than others but you just don't find a regular supermarket.. No way!
We walked down a pretty shady street, and got hassled to by some hash I tucked my camera string deep in my pocket and said I'm ok thanks! Ha ha I started talking to a group of three saying hey man we'll be back made a price got them off our back and obviously didnt go back ha ha!
When we did find a bunch of tiny little random, I mean Random meat/ markets that are very small and one after another we were able to get noodles, some sauce, a can of salmon Ha ha and some wierd bread! Oh yea a two cheap beers!
We went back and waited for some people to finish up with the kitchen and cooked our cheap cheap meal! When we finish a girl named Tiffany came in and she's a very nice girl that'd pretty conservitie and is studying in Florence!
She ate with us and it was nice! After dinner we did some dishes hung out in the lobby for a bit, then I headed up to grab my clothes and didn't even take a shower so I rocked my laundry out fit all night and headed up for the sky bar!
It was nice I met a cool girl that was teaching kids English in Spain and had a lot to say! I've met a lot of people at this hostel but I'm slacking on the pics with them ha ha! What ever can get it all..
Anyways I had a couple beers and got called out for not going out with a small group of people, I just wasn't feelin to go out and drink more at all, it's expensive and I made plans with Tom, Emily, and Matt for a big walk in the morning!
So I went to bed slept pretty good, except Ive been haveing crazy dreams where I feel like I'm talking in my sleep and making ab ass out of myself... But no one ever says anything idk it wierd ha ha..
But anyways lol
I got up took a shower and was ready by 9:30! I was just about to got to the lobby and emily cam up to my room and was like Zack are you ready? And I said yea I'm just gonna have a little breakfast and we'll go!
She was like well were waiting..
Ok... Well we talked about leaving at ten but you guys should just go cause I'm gonna enjoy my breakfast and I love walkin alone so no big deal!
Shes like well I really wanna wait but today's my last day so we made it 9:30 I want to get it all in..
I was like ok well its 9:35 so you better get going!
ha ha it was kinda funny!
But really I like putting in my head phones and doing my own thing and taking good pictures and stuff!
So I went and had breakfast and ended up chatting with Kate this girl that I always give a hard time ha ha she's fiesty! Lol
But she ended up taggin along with me to the top if the giant hill in Athens where you over look everything!! It was a hike! But well worth it!
Theres a little church on top and it's just really really cool!
After getting a little sweaty and feeling the wind at the top awwww it was a nice feeling!
When when Kate and I were about to head back down, we ran into Tiffany!
So we made plans to walk with her and it ended up working out! We all waked back Down together and went to the olpympic stadium! I had an orange off the orange trees that are every where on the way! :) mmmm people say dont eat them but what ever its nature and its and orange!
The stadium Is really big! I'm pretty sure that's were the olmympics were in 2004!
After that we ended up going to zeuses temple! It was just tiffany and i cause kate had already been there and i guess she didnt want to go agian.
That was really cool! Only a little bit still remain but WOW! I loved it!
After zueses temple Tiffany and I walked back towards the hostel and talke ld about a lot! It was a very nice walk!
when we got back near our hostel we looked for a bite to eat and then just ended up goin seperate ways. I was headed to the train station by metro and she was headed to walk through a big park!
So off to the train station I went! I made my way thro thru the very crowded metro, and found the staition no problem!
I didn't have an exact plan of where I was going I just had ideas and options! But i walked out with a train ticket that leaves tuesday to kalambaka, which is very close to a place called meteora, which is supposed to be beutifle! There our Many churches built right on the edges of giant cliffs, and should be worth seeing for a day or so!
Then I think it's off to Albania! Idk, I really really want to see instabul! I talked alot about it and it could very well happen!
So I back at the hostel now I have two more nights in greece and I'm lovin it!
The weathers beutifle, maybe a little to hot for Zack..
Ive seen some amazing things and might spend tomorrow at the beach!
I miss home so much tho I may have another month but I'm ready to see every one I love and miss so much!
Hope everybodys doin good!