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PatrasNewest Review: ... 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 and around four hours to kill before boarding the train to Athens, sitting in the quaint and rather quiet train station would have been a bit of a waste of time so despite having a heavy bag, I set out to explore the town. Patras is actually a city and it's relatively big with more than 300,000 people, it's been getting a lot of coverage lately due to illegal immigrants setting up shanty towns ... more |
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by - written on 05/08/09 (Very useful, 15 readings)
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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
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