We were getting off the boat at sunrise.
While waiting for the taxi we were watching the guy with the squeegee with the long handle wash the boat again.
They have already made a pile of hundreds of suitcases that they collected from the rooms last night at midnight.
My first impression that Athens is a mix of the old and new continued to be true. The people of Athens are just cool about stuff. They don't make a big fuss about anything and especially not all their glorious history. With ruins interspersed amongst the buildings of today they take the attitude that it is there...go see it if you like.
A street view as we head to our hotel.
We dropped our bags at the hotel and went out to explore the neighbourhood.
We are quite near the Acropolis.
You can see a bit of it on the hill.
As we were heading to the flea market we passed this fruit vendor.
He had these big figs. A box for 3 Euro.
The meat market stall. The meat looked pretty good and the locals do shop here.
Next the vegetables.
Now the grains, nuts, flours and beans.
The sausage shop.
There was a flea market too but I was more fascinated by how the locals do their groceries.
We saw lots of Graffiti.
It looks like the current city was built right on top of the ancient one. There are digs taking place wherever an existing building is removed.
Funny that even the existing ones are older than ours.
You can come across tiny little churches here and there which are still being used.
The caretaker of this one was very helpful in showing us around.
He put on the lights and let us take pictures.
Here is something you don't see every day. A lawn and a garden on the front of a building.
Another tiny old church in the center of a roundabout.
This one was decorated in a similar fashion as the last one.
Here Betty is standing on the roof patio of our hotel with the Acropolis behind her.
It is a blazing 36 degrees today so we decided to duck into the hotel for a while to cool off.
Later we went out again to walk around and discovered this park.
Boy, it sure seems dry.
There is a variety of stuff here including this children's library.
I just liked this tree towering over its tiny bridge.
We saw them changing the guard so thought this was the parliament.
Our friend here doesn't look happy.
We came out of the park on another side and lost our orientation for a while.
We think this is the Academy of Athens.
And this is probably a University.
We were walking for a while in a poor looking area. It was suppertime so we stopped at a little restaurant. The food was good and really cheap there.
When we saw this church we were happy because we recognized it as being near our hotel.
Our hotel has a beautiful breakfast room that is open for use during the rest of the day. They supply tea, coffee and water until 5:00 PM and piped in music all the time. I have been spending a lot of time in here catching up on this blog.
While waiting for the taxi we were watching the guy with the squeegee with the long handle wash the boat again.
They have already made a pile of hundreds of suitcases that they collected from the rooms last night at midnight.
My first impression that Athens is a mix of the old and new continued to be true. The people of Athens are just cool about stuff. They don't make a big fuss about anything and especially not all their glorious history. With ruins interspersed amongst the buildings of today they take the attitude that it is there...go see it if you like.
A street view as we head to our hotel.
We dropped our bags at the hotel and went out to explore the neighbourhood.
We are quite near the Acropolis.
You can see a bit of it on the hill.
As we were heading to the flea market we passed this fruit vendor.
He had these big figs. A box for 3 Euro.
The meat market stall. The meat looked pretty good and the locals do shop here.
Next the vegetables.
Now the grains, nuts, flours and beans.
The sausage shop.
There was a flea market too but I was more fascinated by how the locals do their groceries.
We saw lots of Graffiti.
It looks like the current city was built right on top of the ancient one. There are digs taking place wherever an existing building is removed.
Funny that even the existing ones are older than ours.
You can come across tiny little churches here and there which are still being used.
The caretaker of this one was very helpful in showing us around.
He put on the lights and let us take pictures.
Here is something you don't see every day. A lawn and a garden on the front of a building.
Another tiny old church in the center of a roundabout.
This one was decorated in a similar fashion as the last one.
Here Betty is standing on the roof patio of our hotel with the Acropolis behind her.
It is a blazing 36 degrees today so we decided to duck into the hotel for a while to cool off.
Later we went out again to walk around and discovered this park.
Boy, it sure seems dry.
There is a variety of stuff here including this children's library.
I just liked this tree towering over its tiny bridge.
We saw them changing the guard so thought this was the parliament.
Our friend here doesn't look happy.
We came out of the park on another side and lost our orientation for a while.
We think this is the Academy of Athens.
And this is probably a University.
We were walking for a while in a poor looking area. It was suppertime so we stopped at a little restaurant. The food was good and really cheap there.
When we saw this church we were happy because we recognized it as being near our hotel.
Our hotel has a beautiful breakfast room that is open for use during the rest of the day. They supply tea, coffee and water until 5:00 PM and piped in music all the time. I have been spending a lot of time in here catching up on this blog.
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