Hahaha

Well, now I can actually say that I have been to Corinth. How? Well, it's a long story that involves a wrong train, lots of different stops and opinions and eventually a hotel 5km from where we had hoped to be well before 6pm.

This morning we took our time checking out as we thought that we didn't have that far to travel to the port where we would take the ferry to Italy. Little did we know that there was a three hour train ride and another 1 hour bus ride before we were to reach our destination. We did leave Athens with plenty of time but happened to get lost along the way, heading on a train going North, instead of west to Patras (due to a misunderstanding and miscommunication between us and the train guards in Athens). Once we were on the right train we hopped off two stops early (as that is what a guard at one of the stations told us to do) and that is how we ended up in Corinth. It was only the train station but we sat there for 50mins with coffee and ice cream and chatted to a fellow Aussie who had been working in Greece for the past 20 years.

After a bus trip to Patras, we looked to see what time the ferries left for Italy and then found a hotel and some food. A whole extra days travel which we hadn't counted on but it definitely taught us to do our research before leaving a place and now we can look back and laugh... Really it was just a way for us to see more of Greece and not leave the country just yet because we had such a great time here:)

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