Day 2 Acroplis - Photos!

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Well, we finally got some internet. It wasn't working at this hotel in Tolo for the first 2 nights, but I helped them out with it - and it's working now.




Here's us during our first night in Athens. We are in a touristy area (Plaka) which is pretty hectic and full of people, but it's safe to walk around in and close to the good stuff. Most of the restaurants seem to be carbon copies of each other, and they don't serve the type of Greek food I was hoping for (greek potatoes and stuffed grape leaves). But the Greek Salad is very good. You don't need a fancy sauce, just oil and vinegar does it.

Pan's Cave, anything in there? It goes deeper than it looks!


This is me sitting in the Cave of Zeus, I guess I showed the proper respect as lightning didn't strike.



Here is the one and only Parthenon (going through some repairs right now). All the temples on the acropolis were starting around 450BC. There was lots of room for construction as pretty much the entire city of Athens and its acropolis were destroyed by the Persians in 480BC. It's been partially destroyed several times since then and the big statue of Athena (the Parthenon is her temple) has disappeared. The bloody Venetions bombarded it with canon fire in the 1600's while fighting Turks holed up there.

It wasn't as busy as I'd feared it would be, and since we took the long way around climbing up to the acropolis, we only really met 1 person for the first half hour or so on our way up.


Ancient theatre of Dionysus. Originally built around 450bc, added to for several centuries.

More later...

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