I had to be ready early for my ferry, not to mention there was a time change so I was about to lose an hour of sleep.George the owner from the hotel was going to be driving me back to the old port. I think he got confused with the time because he brought me to the ferry over an hour early although I didn't realize this for the longest time. It was dark out, and freezing cold the ferry was there already, but we were not allowed to boared. The only people there was me and another old lady. I was confused, we would be the only ones boarding from Santorini on this massive ferry? Plus I needed to go to the ticket office, but it was not open yet. I thought how can this be? Then one of the workers said, the ferry wasn't leaving for over an hour, I realized that I didn't have the right time. I went to a coffee place near by and sat around. The time went by a little quicker, then I noticed the ticket office was open so I went to get my ticket. I helped the old lady with her bags that had been waiting outside with me earlier, and in return she gave me some cookies. I was relieved to finally be on the ferry back to Athens, although I would miss Santorini dearly. I was passed out nearly the entire way back to Athens, I didn't even hear the port stops in Naxos and Paros.
When we pulled into Athens, it took me a bit to get co-ordinated to find the metro station. I was heading back to the same hostel I had stayed my first night in Athens. The metro ride was definitely entertaining as I was sitting across from German guy who was telling me about his previous marriages and wanted to make me his next wife and take me to Germany. I smiled and kindly refused! The metro line terminated early and we had to switch onto a bus to get us to the next station. When I was switching I was followed by a man who insisted on showing me the way, even though I already knew where I was going. It took a while for me to throw him off , but finally got the message. I exited back on lively Monastiraki square, there seemed to be a lot more going on then I previously remembered. I made my way back to the hostel without a problem, and checked in. The American girl at the front desk remembered me from my previous stay so that was nice. I went into my room which was full of about 5 older European men. It was a bit intimidating, but I wasn't planning on spending much time in there.I went up to the rooftop bar at the hostel, lucky for me the sun was just setting so I was able to capture some amazing pictures. There wasn't anybody there so I chatted with the bartender for a while.
After that my first order of business was to find the Temple of Zeus. It didn't look too hard to find on the map so off I went on foot. It didn't take to long for me to get confused, I ended up circling around for ages, but then by some miracle I found it. Unfortunately it was closed on a Sunday, but the good news is I could still get a great view of it and pictures from outside the gate.
Then I wandered around Plaka and got some food to eat. When I got back to the hostel, I wandered back up to the bar and had some drinks with the bartender and two other hostel workers. They invited me to come out to this club with them, I was tired, but I agreed on account that it was my last night in Greece.We met up down in the lobby and walked over the club, the only problem was that the place was empty besides the club workers and us. We smoked and had some free drinks and danced around a bit because the DJ was playing some great sets. Then some more of the workers from the hostel turned up including the bartender. We all had a bit of a dance, but then split soon after that, it was clear that nobody else was going to turn up. On the way back to the hostel I heard somebody calling my name. I couldn't think of who would know my name in Athens let along at 2 in the morning! It turns out it was none other then Suneet! I couldn't believe our luck! Turns out she had taken the 3 pm ferry back to Athens so they had just gotten into the city not long ago. She was out looking for a specific club, but the place was closed. A lot of stuff was closed because it was nearing Easter. We were so happy and giddy to run into each other, that we decided to eat some crepes at this little restaurant and chatted for about 2 hours. Next thing I knew it was around 4 am, and I was walking Suneet back towards her hotel.
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