After arriving in to Athens Alex and I borrowed his friend's motor bike to go for a coffee in Monasteraki. A video is following once I get back to Australia, but I think it proper I provide a synopsis.
As usual, the Greek Police think they can stop us and try and give us a ticket for something. Luckily I had brought along my witt which they were no match for. Unfortunately that is all I had brought with me. I had left my passport, driver's licence and any form of ID at Christos's place and so had Alex.
When the Police pulled us over Alex was shitting bricks. He wasn't sure if he should speak English or Greek to them. This also had confused the police as the first question they asked was "do you speak Greek?" This was our first advantage!
After explaining that we had come from Naxos today and that we had borrowed a friend's motor bike (luckily it has its papers and everything in order). Alex explained that we were brothers (with different mothers) which amused the police officers. They were even more amused when they learnt that my mother was from Australia and Alex's mother was from South Africa. They though our Dad was quite the Man!!!
A few jokes later with the police offices (one whose mother lived in Sydney for 13 years) all was ok and we were free to go, without a fine, but with Alex's name written in their folder (the main purpose of the folder is to prove to their boss that they had done some work that day).
The Police kindly gave us directions to Monasteraki and we were on our way to battle another day...
