With boats arriving from the likes of Venice, Ancona, Bari and Brindisi - Patras is quite often the first port of call for many people visiting Greece. It was certainly the case for me and I found it to be a relatively nice introduction to the Hellenic nation. For some reason, I'd never bothered to learn the Greek alphabet and it's a little bit frustrating because I knew and know the Cyrillic one which has many similar letters, some of which are different. I was heading to Athens from Patras, so even a simple google for Athens in Greek is easy enough to familiarise yourself with the train timetables at the station. I arrived in Patras at about 10am ...  Read the complete review