My Voyage to Greece

Amrullah Rafioeddin, II SMP, 29 April 2005

About three years ago I went to Greece. I went there together with my father, my mother, my brother, and my sister. We went to the myth country with aeroplane and stayed there for about one and half week, I think.

In Greece the weather was hot, or it is a sunny land like most people say. Our flight destination was the capital city, Athens. In the Athens the weather was hot and it was very beautiful there. When arrived at the airport in Athens, we grabbed our bags and then we took a taxi to our hotel. We took 2 rooms, a big room and a small one. The small room was for my sister and my mother, and it has a balcony. And the other room was for my father, my brother, and myself, so that means one room for the ladies and one room for the gentlemen. At the hotel we immediately went to bed because we were very tired.

The next morning we woke up, had wudhu’ and did our prayers. After that we took a bath. My brother and I stayed in the bathroom maybe one hour or more. When we got out of the bath, our legs were so tired that we couldn’t walk, but after we had a delicious breakfast at the little restaurant in the hotel, we could walk again. After we had breakfast, we took a tour bus with other tourists.

After that, we went to many places and monuments with the tour bus. We also got out of the bus and visited the monuments, like the big monuments of the old Greeks. There were many monuments and colossal. We also visited the graves of the old Greek armies. The graves were like a big hole, I almost fell in one of the graves but fortunately there was a lady who held me back, so thanks to that lady I was safe.

Subsequently, we visited the grave of Hercules. You all know that Hercules was a big and strong warrior that had lived many years at the time of the old Greeks. The grave of Hercules was big and was inside a monument with all of Greeks signs and letters on that grave. After that, we visited the big old Olympia stadium, and in that stadium, like any other Greeks stadiums there were running lanes and I ran on the tracks for one round. Just one round made me so tired, that I had drink maybe two full bottles of water, not the large bottles but little bottles. But my brother ran maybe two or one and half rounds so he was very tired too. After that we went with the bus to another place.

In the bus there was a lady that taught my mother some Greeks but she talked English to my mother so my mother could understand it. My mother said that Greeks is difficult. That lady had a little kid who was playing with my sister. After the tour with the bus, we took a cruise with other tourists for one day. After all of this, it was night, and we wanted to eat, so my father changed his money, because when we were going to Greece there was no Euro (€) yet. Then we ate at a fish restaurant.

The next morning we visited the Centrum (City Centre) of Athens. The last day of our visit my brother, my sister, and I swam in the beach of Athens.

What I noticed in Greece was that there were many cats and dogs that had no owner, so they just lived on streets. It was very pitiful. Another thing that I also witnessed in Athens was that there were many electric buses like in Arnhem.