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BikeAbout Log

At 6:00 PM March 10, 1998
Sunrise (local): 6:52 a.m. Sunset (local): 6:31 p.m.	Weather 60°F
Traveled Since Last Dispatch 0 mi / 0 km Cumulative Total 3141 mi / 5058 km	Lat: 39° 37' 52" N Lon: 22° 25' 13" E Elev: 79 ft / 24 m

Fast Facts

Where We Are: Athens ()
Where We're Staying: Ethan and Padraic are staying with a new friend while Anthony and Corinne rough it out at the Student and Traveler's' Inn
Places We Visited: Larisa train station, Forthnet, Pl@net Café, and the studios of Astra TV
Featured Site: Athens
Person of the Day: Pericles
What We Ate:: Food of the Day: frappé; Breakfast: spinach pastries (spanakopita); Lunch: more spinach and ham and cheese pastries; Dinner: stuffed peppers, eggplant baked with goat cheese and ham, baked potato with tuna, and salad; Olive count: 1858
Word of the Day: "Kalo taksidi" is how you say "Have a nice trip" in Greek. In Larisa, as we boarded the train to Athens, we heard many people wish each other "kalo taksidi."
Tech Fact of the Day: The olive tree was greatly revered in ancient Greece: Flat Count (Cumulative): 21; Broken Spoke Count (Cumulative): 27


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