Getting fluent in Greek!

Yia mas (Cheers!), Signomi (Excuse me), Efaristo (Thank you), Yasu (Hi/Bye), Parakalo (Please and your welcome), Kalimera (Good morning), Kalispera (Good night) and Po ine to (Where is?)....is incredible where being fluent in Greek can take you! Greek people are extremly kind and helpfull, from the man that drove out of the city of Larissa to show us the way, to the one that let us camp for free in its place and the one that gave us complimentary Ouzo (the Greek tequila!), they have all been great!. On April 4th we finally got our bikes and after 3 hours of putting them together and dealing with Lufthansa to take care of our suitcases and send them to Helsinkim off we went! Our greek hosts at the hostel highly recommended us not to cycle in Athens, so we decided to get a big jump start and took a bus all the way to Larissa in central Greece. Once there we put our bikes together and left towards downtown to look fora Hotel. Yes there is one by the National Theater, straight, right, left! We found the hotel and then the thaeter, but oh what a surprise! It was not like the Opera House or Bellas Artes, their National Theater is 500 BC! and is an impressive amphitheater in the middle of a busy downtown!. Larissa is a big student city, with plenty of places to eat at night. Wonderful town. From there, after morning services at an Orthodox church where men sat on the right and women on the left of the church, we departed towards Variko on the beach 86 Km. After that 80 more Km and we are at Halkidona ready to visit Alexander the Great (Alejandro Magno) place of birth.