Black Friday

On the Friday we got up at 5am to catch a bus to the border town near Greece and then got a taxi over the border and to the next town. We got there at 8:25am just in time for the bus to Athens…or so we thought…this was the start of black Friday (hahaha yes ladies and gentleman it’s all drama!). We soon found out that there is an hour time difference between the two countries so we had therefore missed our bus by an hour…grrrrr. The next bus to Athens wasn’t until 12 hours later. We decided to get a bus to Thessaloniki at 11:30 and arrived there at 2:30pm. Thessaloniki is a large city and has a train and bus station with numerous connections to Athens per day. There was a bus scheduled to depart to Athens at 3.15pm but we had read in our guidebook that trains were slightly cheaper and also faster (not to mention more comfortable) than buses so obviously we decided to head to the train station instead. Unfortunately after standing in line for 30minutes (I’m not exaggerating!) I was told that all the trains to Athens were fully booked! Can you believe it!!! By this time it was 3pm so no way we were going to catch the 3:15pm bus …which is the only thing that keeps me sane about what happened next! We got back on the no.8 bus to go back to the bus station…turns out the bus wasn’t doing a loop like we thought and we got on the one going the wrong way and sat on it for 40mins and ending up on the outskirts of the city by IKEA and another bus interchange. Arhhhhhhhhh We eventually got back to where we were meant to be and caught the 6:18pm bus to Athens… The cherry on the top of our crap day was that seats were allocated and we had to sit on the back seat between others (Niki got the superman seat…you know the 1 in the middle and if the bus stops suddenly u go flying), which along with the heaters blasting on full made for an uncomfortable ride. We arrived in Athens at 2am and luckily I have Niki cos we seriously were just dropped off on a random street and had a crappy map, I would’ve been stuck paying for an expensive taxi…but he is really my superman =)