Treasures of the Aegean - Day 1 - Athens (June 3, 2014)

Bob and I are now on another small ship cruise tour, this time in the Aegean.  That's a bit of a misnomer because the first 5 days are a land tour in Greece, so we're doing bus and hotels.  Then we get on the ship and visit the Greek Isles, winding up disembarking in Ephesus, Turkey and flying to Istanbul for a couple of days before we (finally) go home.

We flew in from Slovenia on the 2nd, while the rest of our tour group was coming in from the States. We had previously scheduled a Segway tour of Athens by Night, but we got the time wrong.  I thought it was at 8:30, so we walked to the Plaka, about 5 minutes away.  Our hotel, the Hotel Hera, was in an excellent location!  We found a nice restaurant near the Segway office, highly overpriced by delicious none the less.  About 10 minutes after we ordered (sea bass for me, veal for Bob, plus 2 very large beers), Bob walked over to the Segway office (1 block away) and found out the tour was at 8 and they were ready to go NOW.  What to do?  We agreed to pay for our meal, then come back and eat it after the Segway tour.  Not good.  Then Bob asked if we could reschedule for the next night, and we could so we did.

We were a group of two on the Segway tour.  We saw parts of Athens we hadn't seen before and in general had a rollicking good time.