Greece: Day 4

Bryan and Hannah in front of the Parthenon on the Acropolis.

Bryan overlooking Athens from the Acropolis

Looking down on an ancient Roman theatre... more old stuff.

The Parthenon

We stayed in a backpacker's hostel in Athens, in dorms. At around 6 am sunday morning some guys came back and began snoring so loudly we got up and left. On Sunday, all the big Roman ruins have free entry (rather than 12 euros) so we hit the Athens streets, and we were able to see most of the ruins before many other people were out. Also - before it started raining around noon. The Acropolis was very cool - but by the end of our visit in Greece Bryan declared, "I don't want to see another old clay pot ever again." I definitely agreed with him.

Since it started raining around noon - HARD rain - we grabbed some souvlaki for lunch, and set off to find the highly acclaimed planetarium. After a metro ride, and a confused bus ride spent counting stops, we made it to the Planetarium. We saw a very strange show that sent us surfing around planets in an iMax theatre... I fell asleep. But Bryan said it was strange. Thanks to an abnormal bit of foresite, we'd purchased return bus tickets so after becoming thoroughily soaked we made our way back to Athens proper. We wandered around for a long time before discovering somewhere to eat (we ended up with spare ribs), we returned, still wet, to the hostel.