Shoes for Brigitte and Daddy gets a Man Bag

Here is George. He's a wonderful man who manages the Faros2 Hotel in Athens. He has been so helpful to us  that I had to include him in the blog and to make the point that it's the people who make the difference to a vacation. You can go to the most wonderful places in the world but if you can't relate to and enjoy the people when you get there - it's just not worth doing.  I'll write one more blog after this with my final thoughts but this is the final trip report.



Well, for our last day of vacation,  we had plans to go on a 4 hr city bus ride to and from Poseidon's temple about 100 kms south of the city. Unfortunatelyy the travel plans just didn't come together quite right so we shopped in Athens all day. We poked around the streets walking probably 10kms through different neighborhoods.
I thought we were just looking around but it turns out we were looking for shoes. Please note the following pictures;

 

One of possibly 300 shoe stores we visited today





Brigitte looking for shoes




A nice young Greek man getting shoes for Brigitte






Brigitte unhappy that she still (after 300 stores) does not have new shoes!

  In the end Brigitte found the elusive shoes (sandals with gems...still unclear why they were a must have item) but please please check out Daddy with his new Man-Bag below. Why oh why did I not do this years ago. You can put your camera, wallet, phone - well heck anything in your Man-Bag (purse) and you don't even know you have it. After one day I would say that this is a must have and most European men do. Makes sense to me now!

We finished up the day with a great dinner and final walk around the waterfront. Athens has been a very pleasant surprise. People are more polite than expected to one another and tourists. Looking forward to a noon flight tomorrow and the ensuing 15 hour flight. As they say "ya gotta pay to play" . And so ends the Mahon Family Traipse through Europe. Thanks for following along.