Woke up earlier than usual today ‘cos I just realized Eric & Nicole don’t have toothpaste. They were in the other bunk ‘cos supposedly, the other bunk’s full so I cannot share the room with them. Nehmind lar, I also don’t care one. So I quickly and quietly wash up (there’s a mystery sleeper in the room, mystery ‘cos I cannot find her face), pack my backpack, and dropped the toothpaste in the other bunk. I spent the rest of the morning stoning at the reception while waiting for them to wake up. The reception was crowded man! Lots of people who bought deck tickets were already waking up and washing themselves up at the public toilets. That’s what happen if you do not buy a bunk ticket.
Soon, both of them woke up, and Eric told me that the ferry is going to be delayed for about 2 hours! Wah lao die liao, do what for 2 hours? We spent the rest of our time plonked on the sofa, drinking frappe.
Finally, the ferry docked in Piraeus, and we walked into Piraeus port searching for our rented car. Guess what? Cannot find…There was supposed to be a man holding up a piece of paper with Eric’s name on it, so that he could pass us the car keys and we drove off to Delphi from Piraeus. But the guy wasn’t there. We waited. Still no guy with Eric’s name. I walked up and down the port to spot a guy with Eric’s name on a piece of paper. Still no such guy. We tried calling the agency, but it’s too early for them to open. In the end, after about 45 minutes waiting at the dock, we decided to heck it and go for breakfast, where we would continue calling the agency.
In the end when we got through, it’s bad news. The agent had canceled our booking ‘cos he couldn’t get hold of Eric during the trip. So our Hyundai Accent is gone. How? No more road trip liao. How? What are we gonna do? So I whipped out my Lonely Planet and we started calling the other car agencies to check out the rates for a 3 day rental of car. In the end we chose this agency call Sixt. The rate is 70 Euros per day for a Peugeot 307. Wah not bad leh, we had so far not driven a Peugeot before, sounds so much better than a Hyundai Accent hahaha. So we took the offer.
After the procedures, we were officially gonna start on our road trip! Eric was to drive, and I would be using the map to chart out the direction to our first stop – Delphi. Nicole will be the official sleeper and reminder for meals hahahahahaha.
So we took the route as suggested by the people in Sixt. Take the road going towards Piraeus, then look out for the sign towards Lamia, then next was Corinth, and we would be on the national highway. From there, we should be able to spot the sign towards Delphi. Actually it was not that difficult lar, but it was also not that easy. So, difficult and easy means easily difficult, or difficultly easy lor, hahahaha.
(Nicole:I think the guys are genius. The road maps were all in Greek, so were the road signs the moment we left Athens. But the guys were really genius. They could figure them out those symbols! Though I was not doing the navigating nor driving, being a passenger doing nothing was tiring you know.
We saw an accident along the way. An overturned truck sitting helpless in the middle of the road. Lunch was at this empty taverna which we found on the way. It wasn’t many to choose from, so when we spotted one, mai too liao)
When you order a “hamburger” in Greece, this is what you should expect to get.
Besides stopping by in an empty taverna for lunch, we headed straight for the town of Delphi, where we would stop by for the night. We visited ancient Delphi first, where we saw the ruins of the Oracle, the temple of Apollo and the Santuary of Athena. Well…they are….ruins….literally ruins….hurhurhur.
(Clarence: Wah I like this picture (below) of myself the most 
I’m actually pretty fair in complexion, but in this picture I looked so tanned in it! So handsome! Hahaha! Good job Eric! This one can archive into another of your ‘award winning’ categories 
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Checked into this small little hotel call Hotel Sibylla. The rate for a triple is 38 Euros per night, quite cheap by this time of our trip. It’s already evening. So we checkout the area and had dinner at this taverna call Skala restaurant. Wah lao the food sucks man! This is by far the worse food and service we got in Greece. And it’s recommended by Lonely Planet some more. The moussaka looked like it’s from a instant-pack. And there’s something suspicious about the mineral bottle we had. You see, we were served a bottle of mineral water in most of our meals. This mineral bottle he served was already opened, meaning the seal was already ruptured. And there are so many tiny bubbles sticking to the inside of the bottle, like it’s being filled by tap water…anyway we didn’t pursue the problem.
The rest of the night was spent walking around the dead town and having a little drink at a nice cozy cafe before we call it a night. Tomorrow, we would continue our journey to Meteora!
(Nicole: Delphi town was a very touristy little town. I would say it was pretty much a dead tourist town. When we were driving by, searching for our Hotel Sibylla. Some of the hotel staff were touting. Can’t really blame them, no business they had to be pro-active. I guess Delphi more of a pass through town, could be covered by a day trip. It becomes unnecessary to spend a night.
Dinner was at this tarvena recommended by LP, called Skala. We saw an Asian couple dinning inside, thought was a good choice. Of course we believe the couple read LP too. Among all the meals, we voted this one the worst. Usually the restaurant in Greece serves a bottle of mineral/spring water. The charge will be added to the bill. In Skala, the bottled water was suspected to be tap water cos the cap seal was broken.
The whole night, the couple and us were the only 2 tables eating. I really wonder how the businesses in this town survive.)
