It feels wrong to wish days away when you're on vacation, but that's kind of how I feel about the rest of the time I have in Athens. I'm now staying at a hostel for a couple more nights while I wait for Ian. I decided to head back out to the Olympic stadium complex this morning to see if anything would be different on a Saturday afternoon. Even fewer people this time... other than that, still abandoned. I found an open door that lead into one of the otherwise boarded-up buildings and was thinking about heading in. It was totally quiet inside but there was a little maintenance truck parked next to it and I couldn't tell if anyone was about. I could see lots of cases of chips and Heineken that had obviously failed to sell four years ago. I passed, however, against my better judgment to have a breaking and entering kind of adventure... It still amazes me that now (of all times) with the Olympics going on in Beijing at this very moment that they do nothing with the facilities here. They could just put up a huge screen with live coverage of the Chinese games and make a killing on refreshments... so simple. But, alas, nothing.
That place also seems to curse my new Tamron lens. It decides to stop working every time I go there, which is really starting to upset me. The lens cost as much as the camera... it ought to work. For some reason it stops working with the auto-focus and then won't even allow the shutter release to go because I think it's just not communicating at all with the body. Crikey... it better heal itself.
So I headed back into the city, and now I'm in the new hostel (which has free internet - some consolation for its otherwise crappy facilities). I took a shower basically on my knees this morning because the stall I chose had a sink type faucet at about waist height and nothing else. Whose idea was that? Well... back out to see any other corners I haven't discovered yet. Come on, August 11th.
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