Vacations MAX Blog

Day 6-9

Bali, Indonesia, Jan 21, 2010

Didn’t do much, just laid back, surfing, had sushi, walked around the beach, enjoying sunset.

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Hanoi Fortune Hotel

Hanoi, Vietnam, Jan 28, 2010

We were very happy staying at this hotel. It is quite big and we got to know all the staff pretty well. Everyone was friendly, polite, honest, etc. Our room was big and looked very smart. Although the hotel and our room was facing a busy street, it all got quiet, very quiet after 10pm. We have only good words for the staff in charge of this hotel and all the other employes (door guys, cooks, cleaners, etc). We left our bags with them for some days and all went fine. The room cost us about $45 for 2 people, a day. We definitively recommend this hotel and we will stay there again next time we go to Hanoi.

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Searching for Poseidon!

Sounio, Greece, Dec 27, 2009

And what a search!!!!

The day before I found Laurinhio online, it was quite late and I asked him to give me some directions to find the bus stop that goes to Sounio. I checked on the net, but every single information was so different, I just didn’t know what to think anymore :/ .  Seriously, there’s no much information about transportation and so on the net.

Anyways, so Laurinhio gave me some info, and with that I felt quite ok. However on the map we had, it wasn’t that clear the street where the bus station was, but it was fine, we could ask around.
The person at the reception of the hostel, didn’t have a clue of the place :S.  So, with the guys we planned to just go and ask someone around, we could get there just asking…

We went to Sindagma, walked around trying to find some breakfast, but the coffee shops around are quite expensive. We ended up having Costa Coffee, for me was the first time, but it’s quite like Starbucks. I took some pics of the Barista while making the coffees, I just like coffee and take shots of anything
So, we still didn’t know where the bus stop was. So, we started asking ppl around, but “surprise” nobody knew where it was :S … SERIOUSLY?  ….
After checking and asking and not being successful, we just took the tram and see where it was going to take us lol….. We went till the last stop of the tram, and that was it.  Where was the bus station?…. No clue yet LOL … We asked the tram divers, but they were quite lost. They kind of mentioned there was a bus stop somewhere close :S … So, we walked until we found one, but we weren’t sure if it was the right one :S …. And there was nobody around, just a lady that told Jegzi we should wait for the “Orange” bus. ….. We waited and waited and waited…. and then two Belgians joined us, as they were looking how to get to Sounio, but nobody gave them a clue either.
At some point, we weren’t sure if the bus was going to come :S …. We almost waited for like an hour or so :S … and just when we were going to leave and forget about Poseidon for that day, the bus arrived!   Yeahhh!!

It took us about 1 hour to get to Sounio, the bus cost us around 4,10 euro, and the bus left us at the very entry to Poseidon. There’s a fee of ___ to entry the temple.
The day was cloudy and it was very windy at the temple. But it’s such an amazing place, you could really tell the 4 winds cross over there.
We stayed for a while, taking pictures and hanging around. I had fun with the photo session I made for the guys hahaha.  I wish the day was different, but the sky was quite grey and cloudy, still I tried to do my best :S.
We had to wait for the bus that was going to take us back to Athens. There was a restaurant there, but as always KIELBASA saved us!!! …. Ahhh I just love the Kielbasa , so we shared the food. Thanks guys!

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