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The Plan
May 28, 1997

London 
June 3, 1997

Paris 
June 4, 1997

Amsterdam
June 9, 1997

Prague 
June 15, 1997 

Prague
June 21, 1997

Montreux
June 27, 1997

Rome 
July 19, 1997

Athens
July 30, 1997
 
 

Hi everybody, 
    OK, I know I said I would send this note 
out a while ago...and really I don't have any 
excuse since I am home now. But I know that 
much of the allure of these notes had been lost 
once I admitted I was in Danville and not Paris. 

    Well, lets get to the main event. For those of 
you who were unaware, I was going to Greece to 
visit a penpal I had been writing to on-and-off for 
close to ten years (since junior high). We had never 
met but had talked on the phone twice. Anyway, I 
got to Athens 
(a three hour bus ride from the port) 
around 11:00pm. Nick (my friend) 
took a bus from his house and 
met me there. We took the bus to his 
house where I met his mother and sister. His father 
was staying at their new apartment because they 
thought the current apartment was too small. 

   His mother, who spoke no English, gave us a 
delicious meal served with Amstel beer. Then she 
turned on the switch to have the hot water turn 
on and I took a long needed shower. It was very 
hot that night but I still slept pretty well. 

   The next day (I slept way into the afternoon) Nick 
and I left for his family's summer house on a nearby 
island, Aegina. This seemed to be the best solution to 
the apartment's overcrowding problem. Before we left 
I met his father, a judge. He spoke a minuscule amount 
of English. (Nick's parents actually met while taking an 
English class, but as Nick says, were too busy looking 
at each other to learn anything).