After a long flight to Athens our flight landed at 2pm, Eleni reccomended we take the train which took a little while to figure out which train and where to go as we don’t speak Greek. Trains ran every 30 minutes and we had just missed one so we waited for the next, train takes approx 50 mins and you need to change trains once. When we arrived at Omonia station we found there were multiple exits from the station and when we came up there were around 6 different streets, none of which were named very clearly so it took us a while to find our way to the air bnb. As we hadn’t actually agreed on an arrival time I wasn’t aware Eleni was waiting for us, when we arrived we were greeted by eleni the first thing she snapped at us saying “Why are you so late? I have been waiting and you have stopped me from having my Siesta” she was not happy and I found her very rude and unwelcoming! We hadn’t purposely arrived late, and we had been up since 4am to get to Athens! She continued to make digs at how we had caused a disturbance to her life!
As we were not feeling the most welcome we decided to venture out, the local area felt quite seedy and rough. The air bnb itself was nice, it had everything we needed for our one night stay however the air con was only in the living room and not the bedroom, and if you leave the door open in the bedroom for fresh air you will be woken up by pigeons being very noisy outside the window!