Thrashed!

Yesterday was definitely the day of 'being trashed'. It started actually the night before where Rene and I decided to have a "few" beers. The cool thing over here is that almost all bars give you a beer on the house after you've had a few. For all you Dutch bars, it's called increasing customer intimacy. Of course, the flip side of the coin is that you end up staying longer and having just another one "for the road" and then one more "for the throat". See? The customer intimacy programme really delivers immediate results...

So, four hours after our throat beer, the alarm clock had it's defining moment of the day. That was Trashed 1. We had to get up early to witness the Holland vs. Italy volleyball game. Well, that was Thrashed 2, as we were wondering afterwards what we woke up for. A very simple 3-0 for the Squadra Azurri and 500 Dutch fans could leave the stadium with one illusion less.

From there it was straight to work. That was fun as usual. I gave Rene my camera so he could take some pictures on the parking lot. Yes, Inge (Queen of the Pool) also posed for the camera. She's actually quite cool, as she patiently poses with everyone who asks, even though she swims a final 2 hours later.

In the evening I checked the Baseball results on the computer and yes, the Aussies completely demolished the Dutch team (yes, with all those Antillians) 22-2. By regulation they stopped the contest after 7 innings if one team is leading with more than 10 points (Thrashed 3).

At the Sport Info desk, we had decided to visit the HHH all together. Not a smart move, as we finish around 22:00 hrs and won't get to the HHH before 23:30 hrs. The place was packed! I mean, seriously packed! With the celebration of the swimmers and it being a Saturday, this meant only I could get in (as a Dutchie) but my 8 Greek colleagues couldn't. We decided to go to a trendy bar near to the HHH and try again later. When at 01:15 hrs they still wouldn't let anybody in, most decided to go home as next day the work started again at 07:00 hrs.

There were four of us left. Rene, myself and two Greek guys. First we went to a square full of trendy bars and terraces near Monastiraki. Then Rene and I suggested to go to a place where they have nice music, dancing and good looking people. We should've been more specific! They took us to a place called "Baby", with loud music, only male customers and very good looking people dancing on stage...

We explained to them that we're not really into this kind of Stage Musicals and we preffered to go somewhere else. We had a quick (expensive) beer and looked for something less "exciting", which is not a hard task in Athens as the place is full of cool bars and dancings.

To make a long story short, this morning at around 07:00 hrs we crawled back to our appartment (which is not really in "crawling distance" as the Dutch would say) to enjoy a well needed sleep (Trashed 4)

Roberto

PS: Now I need to go looking for some instructions on how to remove chewing gum from your pants, as I accidentally sat on a large yuckie piece of it... :-(
Anybody has any suggestions?