Athenien Adventure

  Athens, Attica, Greece
Saturday, August 9, 2008

Right so i've had my day in Greece and what a day its been started out about 9 ish and headed in the vague direction of the Acropolis did'nt actually go there first though went to a smaller place first (i'll put the name in when i remember it)

1st place i can't remember

Was really nice it had some ancient buildings (well ruins but you get the idea) and a little museum with some of the finds. After that i headed to another site which had a small temple in it

temple i can't remember

(i promise i'll put names in i have a map with them on but i left it in my room) after that i wandered around and got lost and ended up visiting the Roman library (i remembered a name a first).

Roman Library

After buying some souveners under some duress from an old woman who shook my hand till i was in her store i eventually found my way to the Acropolis it really is amazing though like most of my trip so far all the sites seem to be surrounded by scaffolding and in the Acropolis case cranes it's like ancient greece - under construction.

Acropolis

Wandered down from the acropolis and had a look at one of the theatres. Had lunch near the temple of Olpympian Zeus which was a nice piece of grilled chicken surrounded by the scrawniest pigeons i've ever seen. The temple of zeus was ok but a bit well lacking, nothing like the Disney film for one thing its not up a hill.

Whats left of old zeus's temple

wasn't too bad though and considering i'd seen all the sites for free (great being a student) and not had to queue at all it was definatly worth it.
After old zeus' temple i got my eye on this hill

The HILL

i'd been told you could see all of athens from it it took me a couple of hours to get to the top from the temple as i'm stubborn and wasn't going to pay money for a trian that goes up a hill (ok so i couldn't find it) but anyway i eventually got up it after being chased by a massive alsation well it ran up to me barking stopped sniffed and then ran back again (i guess i had been walking all day in 35+ heat).

Me on top of the hill

Took a lot of photos from up there and headed back to the hotel after a slight detour (read got lost ... again)

Anyway it's been a great day and hopefully i'm headed to thesoloniki tomorrow but i might give myself a beach day if i can find a nice one.