I had one mission and one mission only for our final day: Buy a kick ass brass Spartan helmet and 2 of those really cool mini brass warrior statues. Most of the shops didn't open until 9 or 10, and we had to get a taxi back to the airport by noon, so I went into a terminator-like trance until my quest was completed. The helmet was the easy part, we just walked into one of the shops we had already scoped out a couple days before. Most of the more expensive stuff (such as said helmet) usually had a price tag on it, but the person running the shop always offered to give you a "special discount" just for you. So the dude said he's knock of 18 Euros, which was pretty good since I would've paid the price on the sticker anyways.
The mini statues were not so easy. They were as much as 22 Euros in some of the shops, but I was able to find them for 12 at another. So we headed over to that shop, but for some reason it still wasn't open at 11am. Uh oh. I refused to pay 15 extra bucks for each statue, so we had to run around a little bit looking for a better deal and still get back in time to catch the taxi. We ended up finding them for about 14 Euros, so I picked my two favorites (a Spartan running with a sword and shield, and an archer on one knee with his bow and arrow ready to strike) and we were on our way.
Found a quick place to grab a couple chicken gyros, scarfed 'em down, then bought 3 fantastic sugar-coated donuts from a street vendor and we were on our way. The view of the sea and some of the 3000+ Greek islands from the plane was unbelieveable.
We've already started planning our next trip back...
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