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I am sorry this post is so long overdue, I don't really have any good excuses either since I've been in Budapest for the past couple weeks.... Picking up where the previous post left off, after a significant amount of scenery and cards we arrived in Athens. A hectic metro trip, and deceptively long walk later we found ourselves at the doorstep of the Hotel Zeus, our residence for the next two days. After a quick planning meeting, we went to bed in order to be ready to take on one of the worlds oldest cities. The next morning we headed down towards the ancient city center, with the Acropolis and other historical sites. While Ranjan and Will went to pick up our train tickets for the trip back to Thessaloniki the rest of the group walked around the touristy area of downtown, including the misnamed and unfortunately overpriced flea market. A friendly kutya (Hungarian for dog) then led us to the base of the Acropolis hill where we met back up with Will and Ranjan. We spent the r

Now that I have a little more free time I'll try to give a little more detailed accounting of my spring break. This will likely take a couple of installments since I did so much in Greece and updating this blog isn't exactly priority one. Anyways, break started on Friday March 26th with the conclusion of my Combinatorics midterm. Ranjan and I went to the CBA market by our houses to get some supplies for the journey, then grabbed our stuff and met up with the other 11 people who had elected to share in our adventuring. Our journey comprised of two legs, the first train got us to Belgrade at about 10PM and the second took us the rest of the way to Thessaloniki. Despite taking nearly 26 hours the trip was actually quite fun, none of the trains were full so we were able to spread out over 3 6-person compartments. On the second train the seats even folded down nearly flat which my compartment only discovered at about 3 am while we were waiting at passport control in Macedonia. We di

I'm back safe and sound from spring break!! I went to Thessaloniki, Athens, and Mykonos via train and ferry for a grand total of nearly 80 hours in transit. Totally worth it!!! There is absolutely no way for me to give a play by play, and I should be doing homework so here are some of my favorite pictures to tide you over.