Day off in Athens

A couple days ago while still on the mainland of Greece we gave ourselves a day off to explore Athens and collect things for our island life. So what do we do on our days off? We walk, to start, we walked to the train station hoping to take the train into down town Athens. Upon arriving at the station we learned that there was a transportation strike and that there was only one urban train that ran every hour. We waited. We rode for twenty minuets or so and got off in an unknown city, we didn't have a map. After trying to figure out where a bookstore would be by asking taxi drivers in our non existent Greek we decided to find a map. we found a map and set off walking ditching the taxi plan, who needs a car. We were bookstore hungry for English book for our many hours of relaxation on the island. We wandered and looked and finally found a department store with a bookstore, however they didn't have any English books. We did stock up on moleskin journals, Gen, Georgia, and I each bought one. We were pointed in the direction of where some English books might be and set off. On days off Emma avoids navigating, Georgia led us through the busy streets of Athens with ease. Now would be a good tine to point out that we had specific missions. Georgia was looking for the Lonely Plant Greece guide and Gen was searching for the last three of the Harry Potter series. Bookstores started popping up one after another, we visited each one with due diligence. One even had a sale of 50% off all English books, we couldn't resist. In the end we went to over six bookstores, accomplished all of our goals amassing over 20 books (that includes our previous 15). I was even able to find a pair off bike pants I enjoyed wearing. We felt very accomplished. Running on energy of success we took off to see the sights. Unfortunately since we spent so much time searching for books we arrived to late to enter any of the ancient sites. We were still able to see them, their size and magnificence was inspiring. We headed back to our hotel with rain sprinkling down on us. One more quick stop to purchase a bike bell for me, and we were homeward bound. We made it to the train station just as the train was leaving, luckily we were able to get on. Back at the hotel we planned for the next day when we would take a ferry to our island.