A Tiny bit of Athens

We arrived in Athens at about 3 o'clock ready to hit the hay or hit the sack whichever you prefer.

Of course we as children, had to do what our very much awake parents wanted us to do AKA: Let's get the subway and...

Go to the acropolis!

The most exhilarating part of the trip was the subway, it is so astronomically fast! We zoomed down the tracks and much too fast we had arrived at StAtioN aCropOLiS (jthe words are in Greek so I wrote them like that to indicate the difficulty understanding it) and sadly we had to disembark.

Drew's first subway ticket

 

 

Doctor who is real and here's the proof:

The angel assassins ! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

 

 

The people who live in Athens are categorised into 1 of these 3 categories

1. Friendly and nice: Does all work properly, willing to help anyone, doesn't cheat the schedules.
2. Nahhh mates: people who continuously try to cheat their customers out of any money possible, really don't care about other people, try to make your life harder, rude in the extreme.
3. Every one else: robbers.

90% of the people we met in Athens were type 2's such as the people who ran the opening, closing and admission times and tickets. the board says last admission is at 6:30 and the acropolis shuts at 7:00, the people at the desk said that they closed tickets already even though the time was 6:25. As you can imagine there was a massive outcry from all the people wanting to get in, but the workers didn't care. They just wanted to go home, so that was that except for one thing we saw on the way home. Mars Hill.

 

 

Mars Hill is at the back of the Acropolis and gives a PV (premium view).

 

The next day we set out to the acropolis museum because if we couldn't see the acropolis we might as well see what they found in it:

• Massive old statues mostly of Athena the goddess of the city
• The frieze of the pantheon
• Lots of mini figurines

Drew and I spent a couple of hours doing and educational and heaps of fun quiz activity finding the statues of Athena. As we were moving around, we saw many ancient cups, tools and relics of the old city.

When we looked down, we could see through the perspex floor into the ancient city being excavated by archeologists below the level of the museum. Every floor of every level of the museum is made of perspex. Cool.

 

Entrance. See ancient town below the museum level

 

Our completed tour activity sheet

 

 

 

We had a great time in the museum and were thoroughly disappointed when we had to leave but we didn't want to miss our plane to ROME!!!

I've enjoyed Greece with its gorgeous little peaks of happiness around every corner and am looking forward to all the new things in Rome

See you in Italy

(metaphorically of course)

Zozo

 

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