Since it is getting late I will divide day 3 in two parts. Actually just spread the entry over 2 days. Yes we woke this morning to rain. It is the perfect day to take the on and off bus and see the national archeological museum. Unfortunately so did several other tourists and since it was raining all the great seats in the bus were taken. We had walked most of the area near the hotel and to many of the sites the past two days so it was mostly the outskirts we missed
We had umbrellas this time so we were set. No rain getting to the bus but the 15-20 minute wait to buy tickets to the museum had us very happy we had umbrellas. The museum is very well done and we followed Rick Steves guidebook tour of the museum since of course we forgot to download the audio tours before we left home and the internet even though WiFi is all over and the speed is less than optimal.
Surprise of surprises we finished about the same time as others since the people who purchased tickets right before us were also leaving and waiting for the bus to arrive. During our waitthe wind came up consequently as we finish the day with only 1 umbrella. Good thing we are down sizing.
We head back to the hotel to await our transfer to the port. We decided to get there 30 minutes before boarding so as to not have any worries about being late. The waiting room when we left the ship had tons of seats like an airport gate does. So we get there at 5 to five. Our cab driver drops us out side the port terminal gate, with little English he points to go through the gate and we are right there. There is a food kiosk next to the waiting area and damasks is this where the 6pm boat to hydra leaves from. The guy says yes. No worries it will arrive at 17:30 and leave at 6pm. The waiting area is not inside but outside Witt the wind and breeze. Luck for it stopped raining. Well sure enough a boat shows up at 17:40. Everyone off and new people are boarding. We get to the front with our paper ticket and we are told we must change it for a really ticket and we are scheduled to leave from the other boat that has been parked for the past 45 minutes. We run to the other end of the terminal, get to the boat. I wait while Dan changes the ticket We ARE the last on. The captain tried to leave but the gate person said we were coming. I finished loading the luggage and Dan returned with our appropriate tickets He came aboard and the boat left. This was the last boat of the night. So even though we were more than 1 hour early we almost “missed the boat”.
Surprise of surprises we finished about the same time as others since the people who purchased tickets right before us were also leaving and waiting for the bus to arrive. During our waitthe wind came up consequently as we finish the day with only 1 umbrella. Good thing we are down sizing.
We head back to the hotel to await our transfer to the port. We decided to get there 30 minutes before boarding so as to not have any worries about being late. The waiting room when we left the ship had tons of seats like an airport gate does. So we get there at 5 to five. Our cab driver drops us out side the port terminal gate, with little English he points to go through the gate and we are right there. There is a food kiosk next to the waiting area and damasks is this where the 6pm boat to hydra leaves from. The guy says yes. No worries it will arrive at 17:30 and leave at 6pm. The waiting area is not inside but outside Witt the wind and breeze. Luck for it stopped raining. Well sure enough a boat shows up at 17:40. Everyone off and new people are boarding. We get to the front with our paper ticket and we are told we must change it for a really ticket and we are scheduled to leave from the other boat that has been parked for the past 45 minutes. We run to the other end of the terminal, get to the boat. I wait while Dan changes the ticket We ARE the last on. The captain tried to leave but the gate person said we were coming. I finished loading the luggage and Dan returned with our appropriate tickets He came aboard and the boat left. This was the last boat of the night. So even though we were more than 1 hour early we almost “missed the boat”.
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