Phones and Phone cards!

First you need a triband phone. You can buy a phone and a card from the Athens airport for about 100 Euros from a store called Germanos at the far end near the car rentals. I was lucky enough to have a friend who lent a phone to me.

I spent 5 euros and got the following card I simply removed the card...see below... and placed it in the phone. I turned on the phone and entered the pin number that came witht the phone. All calls incomming are free. I called 1313 (free call) to get the language changed to english...no problem. I called 1314 to charge the phone with a phone card (20 euros) and then entered option 3 then the long number on the phone card. Done. Anther option is to use local calling cards. You can go to any corner store and ask for them. Good luck HOME