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Modal Day
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Completed 24 hours of Car, Ship, Plane, Bus, and Train travel.
Arrival into Pireaus (Port area or Athens) was 05:00 AM;
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however, thankfully we requested late "check out" of 07:30
AM. Basically had the ship to ourselves when we left - Always
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enjoy the ease of ferry travel.
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Port area of Pireaus looks like a used car lot of massive ferry ships -
all pointed in different directions ready to depart. Glad we
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were arriving. Looks like departure would be fun locating the
correct ship and dock.
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500 meters to the right or our ship was the light rail station - very
popular and very full. The green lines starts at the port and
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proceeds into Athens. Transferred to the blue line heading to the
airport - so we thought. Construction on the line required
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a divert to a local bus. So, after endless crawling through Athens
traffic, the airport bound bus reached the main expressway.
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Our Aeagen flight was an easy check in and departure - airline included a
nice lunch with wine for the flight to Frankfurt,
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Germany. Landed in the land of well coordinated logistics - from
arrival gate to regional train in no time. Purchased a
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week long pass for the S-Bahn and boarded the S-8 for Mainz.
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A surprise at the Mainz Sud station - new buildings surround the station
with a new station name: Mainz Roman Theater.
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In front of the station was the new Euro contemporary buildings and behind
the station was excavation of the foundation
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of a sizeable Roman
theater. Watched the college students picked and
dust at small sections revealing another brick or two.
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3 blocks down to the hotel and check in - room with Rhein river view and
begins the observation of the parade of ships.
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