We found our way to George's house, settled our things and then headed for coffee at Starbucks. From there we watched a movie, chatted and called it a night.
Although we wanted to get up early we decided not to set an alarm for a change and let our bodies wake up when they wanted to.....well that meant 11:30am!!! Half the day was gone. We got up and organised and think it was close to 1 before we got out of the house. We headed back to Starbucks to research our options, most of the places were closing at 3 so we just walked around and explored the city before finding dinner and returning back to Georges.
Day 3 in Athens we got up early and headed for the Acropolis. It was a perfect sunny day so we set out to explore. We were getting a hung of the metro lines and arrived in no time. I took a good hour to actually buy my ticket and head inside as I was having much too fun giving the stray dogs some love and basking in the sun with them. Eventualy we climbed way up to the top, stood where soo many people before us have, took many many pictures and breathed in the serenity that it The Acropolis. It's massive in size, beautiful in arcitechture and always neat to think what life must have been like back when it was built...
It was so nice to be way up above the city, standing on this huge mass of marble, it was so calming and a nice oasis away from the dirty smelly city.
I really don't like Athens. The people are rude, everyone looks dead...stone faced and numb, the city is very dirty, it's actually smells bad everywhere and over all it just sketches me out. People definatly don't rule the streets like in some places.....here everyone is in cars, theres soooo much smog in the sky and good luck finding a cross walk. Even when you do there's no telling for sure if the cars are actually going to stop. I've been honked at, hollared at...even the public bus driver shook his fist at me while I was crossing the crosswalk on a green crosswalk light while he was waiting to turn right. RUDE RUDE RUDE!!!!
I don't like Athens....
We had many places we wanted to see in Athens after the Acropolis but with it being so nice out we wanted to do that tomorrow and head for the beach.
We caught the subway as far out as it goes and asked some locals where to go. We ended up walking a ways but eventually found the ocean. It wasn't quite a beach but we could sit by the water and watch the sailboats pass by, smell the clean ocean air and watch the crazy parachute people with engines on their backs flying through the sky doing all kinds of stunts.
Would have been slightly more relaxing without that noise however being by the water we were in paradise. It was getting clear Chelsea and I needed an excape from the city.
Aftrer watching the sun set behind the mountain we made our back into town, found some dinner and back again to Georges. He had plans for the evening so we just had a night in.
This was my last night in Athens as I was off Cairo to visit Sara tomorrow and Chelsea was going to hang around this area.....but maybe more outside the city until I get back on the 21st.
Although we wanted to get up early we decided not to set an alarm for a change and let our bodies wake up when they wanted to.....well that meant 11:30am!!! Half the day was gone. We got up and organised and think it was close to 1 before we got out of the house. We headed back to Starbucks to research our options, most of the places were closing at 3 so we just walked around and explored the city before finding dinner and returning back to Georges.
Day 3 in Athens we got up early and headed for the Acropolis. It was a perfect sunny day so we set out to explore. We were getting a hung of the metro lines and arrived in no time. I took a good hour to actually buy my ticket and head inside as I was having much too fun giving the stray dogs some love and basking in the sun with them. Eventualy we climbed way up to the top, stood where soo many people before us have, took many many pictures and breathed in the serenity that it The Acropolis. It's massive in size, beautiful in arcitechture and always neat to think what life must have been like back when it was built...
It was so nice to be way up above the city, standing on this huge mass of marble, it was so calming and a nice oasis away from the dirty smelly city.
I really don't like Athens. The people are rude, everyone looks dead...stone faced and numb, the city is very dirty, it's actually smells bad everywhere and over all it just sketches me out. People definatly don't rule the streets like in some places.....here everyone is in cars, theres soooo much smog in the sky and good luck finding a cross walk. Even when you do there's no telling for sure if the cars are actually going to stop. I've been honked at, hollared at...even the public bus driver shook his fist at me while I was crossing the crosswalk on a green crosswalk light while he was waiting to turn right. RUDE RUDE RUDE!!!!
I don't like Athens....
We had many places we wanted to see in Athens after the Acropolis but with it being so nice out we wanted to do that tomorrow and head for the beach.
We caught the subway as far out as it goes and asked some locals where to go. We ended up walking a ways but eventually found the ocean. It wasn't quite a beach but we could sit by the water and watch the sailboats pass by, smell the clean ocean air and watch the crazy parachute people with engines on their backs flying through the sky doing all kinds of stunts.
Would have been slightly more relaxing without that noise however being by the water we were in paradise. It was getting clear Chelsea and I needed an excape from the city.
Aftrer watching the sun set behind the mountain we made our back into town, found some dinner and back again to Georges. He had plans for the evening so we just had a night in.
This was my last night in Athens as I was off Cairo to visit Sara tomorrow and Chelsea was going to hang around this area.....but maybe more outside the city until I get back on the 21st.
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