Day 1: Eagle has landed, public transport, historic ruins,

We have made it to our hotel in Athens- Hotel London. The backside faces the water and has a beautiful view.

We got off the plane by walking down the steps of the actual plane and got onto a shuttle which took us to our gate. Before the shuttle took off, I saw our bike cases being unloaded off the plane to be transported to luggage pickup.

Following the directions provided by the hotel, we took the X96 bus which took use to a bus stop close to our hotel. However we had to lug our luggage on the side walk for about 1km. That's pretty far for a couple of bike cases weight about 30lbs and 45ish lbs.

Edit after getting into hotel room:
After getting into our hotel room, we openned the door to the balcony and did not actually have a view of the water even though we are only 2 bolcks away. Our view is obstructed by some trees.

We unpacked our bikes from the boxes and decided it would be a good idea to figure out how to get to the hotel where the conference is being held. Titania Hotel is located in the heart of the Athens. We took a tram which ended up taking about an hour and got off in the city to walk about 1km to Titania. It was good to do a mach run to figure out travel logistics to get to the conference.

Next adventure was walking to the historic Greek ruins including on the same 'campus' The Acropolis, Theatre of Dionysos, Ancient Agora...

Pics- http://travel.webshots.com/album/578023339sTbZOY
...more on day 1 to come...