Friday, September 10, 2010

Day Four – Athens

Breakfast is as daggy as our room at the Phidias but it is sunny again - we are told it is always sunny in Athens – and we walk up the hill, past the Acropolis and around to the Acropolis Museum. It is a very modern building with a glass floor, which enables us to watch the archaeological dig going on underneath.


From the Museum we wander into the Plaka – and spend a couple of hours looking at all the little shops. A shopping fix for Lee and then more ruins to explore - Hades Gate, the Temple of Olympian Zeus, the Theatre of Dionysus. We keep stumbling upon more ruins.


We spend a full day roaming and I remark to Alan how despite the temperature being in the mid-30s neither of us is burnt. Makes you realise the ferocious intensity of our sun in Hobart.


We train it to Piraeus and avoid the dodgy taxi drivers to find our hotel, which is quite okay despite being very cheap. We venture out for dinner and find a very hospitable young Greek restaurant owner who goes overboard bringing us out more food. Not really my style of cuisine as a bit greasy but he introduces me to metataxa, which I like!





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