Important Information for our Athens HHH Prelube visitors

16-18 July, 2004 - Mycenae, Peloponnese, Greece

(1) All hashers registered for the weekend automatically have hotel accommodation reserved in Mycenae for the nights of Friday 16th and Saturday 17th July. You will need to settle your hotel bill some time on the Sunday.

(2) If you require accommodation before Friday night and/or after Saturday night, please re-confirm your request - just so there are no misunderstandings.

>>> It would also help us if you could send or re-confirm your flight arrival details so that we can try to anticipate any possible problems. Also, which pickup point you plan to embark our coach (see below).

(3) PICK UP POINTS

Our coach will collect hashers on Friday 16th July at the following places & times:

4.30 p.m. Kallimarmaro (Old Olympic or Panathenaic) Stadium - Central Athens
[NOTE: A 15 minute.walk from the E95 Airport Express Bus Syntagma stop]

5.00 p.m. Alpha Vita Vassiloupolos Supermarket - Kifissias Avenue - Psychico - Athens Central - North

5.30 p.m. Syngrou Park car park - Kifissias Avenue - Maroussi / Kifissia - Athens Northern Suburbs
[NOTE: Near the KAT stop for the E92 Airport Express Bus]

5.45 p.m. Outside McDonalds (opposite the bus station at Platanos Square & the park) - Kifissia- Athens Northern Suburbs
[NOTE: Just over the road from the last stop for the E92 Airport Express Bus]
[WARNING: Don't confuse with E93 going to Kifisos - totally different!]

(4) Transportation from Athens International Airport:
The Airport Express Buses depart from the Arrivals level between exit 4 & 5 every 10-15 minutes. The cost of the ticket is Euro 2.90, which also covers travel on other forms of public transport for 24 hours (so don't lose it!).

The E95 Syntagma stop & terminus in the centre of Athens is very close to Syntagma or Constitution Square. The metro entrance on the square has free museum inside. Also on the square is the Parliament building (you'll see the guards outside) & a McDonalds. The National Gardens are just off the square. Short metro rides take you to the Acropolis station for seeing the Acropolis & the Parthenon & to the Monastiraki station for the flea market & shopping and Plaka for eating & sightseeing.

Walk through the National Gardens to get to the Kallimarmaro stadium. You can buy a small, inexpensive map of Athens from a kiosk (periptero) to guide you there. Our coach will stop on the main road outside the stadium entrance. There is a coffee shop (& public toilets) near the Stadium entrance if you arrive early.

The E92 Kifissia stop is in the Northern Suburbs. Lots of eating & shopping nearby. The old metro train (called the Electrico) is a 5 minute walk through the park & goes down past the NEW Olympic Stadium complex - to the centre of Athens (allow 40 minutes +) & down to the southern port of Piraeus (it's slow! allow at least 1 hour). Note: The ferries to the Greek Islands are a short walk from Piraeus Electrico station.

(5) MONEY: There are ATM's and Bureau De Changes at the airport. Also, most banks have ATM's outside. There is a large bank (Ethniki Trapeza) near the Kifissia stop.

Contact Phone Numbers

If you are bringing a mobile (cell) phone with you (GSM system), please send us your number so that we could contact you if necessary.

Most kiosks (peripteros) have telephones that you can use for a small charge. So call us if you have a change of plan or need advice.

Athens HHH mm-committee:

Solve Steinhoven (Bursting Bladder) Home: 210-671-1906 Mob: 697-200-5097
& The Dyke
(NOTE: Will be first on the bus - so contact them first)

Raman Singh (Playboy-2) ---- Mob: 693-244-3566
(NOTE: Will join bus a Kalimarmaro Stadium - look out for him)

Brian Kirman (Strawberry 4S) Home: 210-608-2050 Mob: 694-696-9154

Robert Horne (Mad Dog) Home: 210-804-8482 Mob: 693-251-1339

David Wells (Pop Up) Home: 210-674-3448 Mob: 694-620-8178

- Prelube Weekend - Additional Information -

(1) The hotel: "La Petite Planete", Mycenae, Argolis, Greece Tel: 27510-76240
(It's a family-run hotel & close to the archaelogical site - go up through the village and it's on the left hand side).

Please be quiet inside the hotel late at night as there are other guests staying there who will be trying to sleep.

(2) The coach is a new one and they have a "no eating/drinking on the coach" policy as do most coach companies in Greece. But don't worry, we will have a beer & refreshment stop on the way.

(3) The hotel has a nice swimming pool surrounded by mowed but rather dry, coarse grass. It had limited sun loungers, & umbrellas when we visited last, so…...

SUGGEST YOU BRING Swimming costume, towel and/or something to lie on, beach shoes, sun tan oil, & umbrella & spike (if you want some shade - it will be hot!).

(4) Please prepare some skits, jokes, or songs etc. to entertain the hashers at our Friday night pool party. Also, bring a good dance music CD if you have one.
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(5) Wear hashing gear on the coach if possible as we plan to have a short orientation hash up through the village of Mycenae to the hotel on our arrival, followed by a welcoming circle.

(6) The Syngrou Park pickup point is designed mainly for those who wish to join the coach by car and park their cars over the weekend in the car park (we have done this many times and so far never had a problem). Suggest you leave nothing of value (better nothing at all) visible in the car - lock it in the boot / trunk.

In the unlikely but possible event that the car park is full (a local school or theatre happening) you will find spaces on the road opposite - leading down to the KAT hospital.

Syngrou Park - Maroussi (Athens Northern Suburbs) - Directions:

Driving
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FROM THE SOUTH:
Coming from Athens go up Kifissias Avenue.
Go through / past Maroussi.
Pass the Bulldog pub and a cinema complex on your left.
Syngrou Park is now on your right. Continue on up in the right hand lane for ½ km or so. At the traffic light junction for the KAT hospital turn RIGHT into the Syngrou Park car park (look for the HHH sign at the entrance to the car park). If you overshoot there is another entrance in about 150 metres.

NOTE: If you pass the Neoset building on your right and start to enter Kifissia you have gone past the car-park entrances. With heavy traffic you may have to turn around at the Kifissia park / bus station (Get in the left-hand lane). Then follow directions From the North.

FROM THE NORTH:
Going southwards on Kifissias Avenue.
Go through/past Kifissia.
Get into the left-hand traffic lane & then turn left at the KAT traffic lights - directly into the Syngrou Park car park entrance.

NOTE: If you reach the Bulldog pub & cinema complex on you right-hand side you have gone too far. Turn round here, as there are traffic lights, else you may end-up in Maroussi.

By Metro/ Electrico
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Take the Piraeus - Kifissia line and get off at the KAT (hospital) station. Once out of the station, walk up the road at right angles to the railway tracks in the direction of the KAT hospital. You will immediately pass the Venetis store on your right. Keep straight and in 450 metres & a bit uphill you reach Kifissias Ave. Immediately across the road is the Syngrou car park entrance.

>>> Meet in the upper section of the car park <<<

(7) ALTERNATIVE TRANSPORT: If you for some reason cannot board our coach at a pick-up point you must phone one of the committee - so that the coach is not delayed. If you intend coming later on Friday or on Saturday, it is possible to travel to Mycenae by public transport (see below). Note that the seaside town of Nafplio is only about 20 km from Mycenae.

BUSES AND TRAINS GOING TO NAFPLIO AND MYCENAE (Mikines in Greek)

BUSES

From the bus station Stathmos Peloponisou Nomos Argolidos: to Nafplion

Get off FISTIA stop the nearest to Mycenae (1Km) (Can even walk from there! )
Ticket price: E 9.00 one way, E 16.00 both ways
Address of the bus station: Kifissou 100 (Tel.: 210-513-4588)
TIMETABLE:
Mon-Thursday: 05:45, 07:30 then every hour until 19:30 and the last one at 21:00
Friday : the same as above only the last one at 22:30
Sat.-Sunday: from 06:30, 08:00, 09:30 the last at 22:30
Remember to say that you go to Mycenae (Mikines) and you get off at the FISTIA stop.
They give information where you buy the tickets.
How to get to the bus station:

a) By taxi: Say to the driver you want to go to STATHMOS PELOPONISOU FOR ARGOLIDA

b) By bus: 1) from Ommonia Square - Menandrou Street - bus No 051
2) from Pireaus Akti Kondyli - bus No 420 ask the driver where to alight

TRAINS

From Stathmos Larissis…Trains to Pelopponisos, Nafplion.
You take the train that goes to Nafplio and there is a stop at Mycenae you can ask where exactly when you buy the tickets. Say you want to get off at Mikines.
Ticket: E 3.50 one way, E 6.00 both ways…but it's much slower than the bus!
Address of the station: It's downtown and not very far from OMMONIA SQUARE
TEL.: 210-529-8735 & ask about trains to Pelopponisos

TIMETABLE: Monday to Sunday: only twice a day… 07:20 and 16:00
How to get to the train station:

a) By taxi, say that you go to STATHMOS LARISSIS trains to PELOPONISOS
b) By trolley bus, from Panepistimiou St., Syntagma Square & Ommonia Square, Trolley No1"
c) By Metro, line DAFNI-SEPOLIA you get off STATHMOS LARISSIS stop.
(take the line direction towards Sepolia)
(This information is from Beat Me Up)

[Good idea to print all this!]

-BEFORE CARDIFF, HAVE A -FABULOUS TIME- HASHING IN GREECE-

The Athens Hash will host an Olympic Games 2004 & Cardiff Interhash 2004 'prelube' from Friday 16th -to- Sunday 18th July, 2004 in Mycenae, Peloponnese, Greece.

To make the event really special we will be combining hashing activities with sightseeing and partying.

Planned Itinerary (we reserve the right to make changes if & where necessary):

FRIDAY 16th JULY
-Travel by coach from Athens to Mycenae (departing Northern Athens 5.30 p.m.)
(view the famous Corinth canal on the way)
-Short (optional) orientation hash (& walk) around & through the village to the hotel.
-Short welcome hashers circle at the hotel.
-Dinner at the hotel.
-Open-air hasher's fun entertainment & dancing party by the swimming pool.

SATURDAY 17th JULY
-Sightseeing visit to the archaeological site & museum of ancient Mycenae (earlybirds).
-Coach trip to the nearby wine country of Nemea to....
...Visit and have a short run round the ancient stadium of Nemea.
...Visit to a local winery to sample (and purchase) wine and eat snacks.
-Optionally have lunch in Mycenae village.
-Main hash in the hills & valleys around Mycenae (runners & walker's trails).
-Hash circle by the swimming pool.
-Sunbathe or swim at the pool.
-Dinner at the hotel.
-In the evening, a coach trip to nearby Nafplion (former capital city of Greece - with an ancient castle on a hilltop overlooking the city) for boozing, nightclubbing, stroll by the seafront, coffee under the palm trees, etc. (your choice).

SUNDAY 18th JULY
-Recovery hash in the morning.
-Lunch at a Taverna in the centre of Mycenae village.
-Free time to buy tourist gifts in the village, browse, have coffee, etc.
-Time for fun round the pool.
-Coach departs for Athens and arrive in Northern Athens at about 8.00 p.m.

COST (including special T-shirt, site entrance fees, & all the beer you can drink) will be not more than Euro 110.00   NOT including accommodation. We can reserve accommodation for you on request (see booking form), but you pay this yourself.

Hotel or local accommodation will cost between Euro 20.00 to Euro 40.00 per night, per person - depending on sharing & availability (e.g. Single room - 40, Double room - 25, & Triple room - 20 p.p. per night) - for the two nights, including continental breakfast. Additionally, there are two fully equipped camp sites within the village - an easy walk to the hotel.

NOTE: If you wished, you could stay on at the hotel or lodging in Mycenae for more days and return to Athens by public bus. Need to let us know so we could reserve the accommodation for you. This will be peak holiday season.

If you would like to pre-register and secure a (limited) place, please download and return the rego ASAP (MS Word document - approx. 43 Kb) & post us a small deposit cheque (see form for details):

Download Prelube Rego

Note: When you register, your accommodation in Mycenae will be reserved for you.

OnOn,

Athens Hash Mismanagement Committee.

For further information -or- a plain text version of the rego, e-mail: Mad Dog