And we’re back. Between intermittent Internet connections and jet lag, I went to bed. But here’s the rest of it.
After dropping our stuff and leaving the hotel, we hopped back on the metro for a few stops, which took us pretty close to the Acropolis. There, we wandered through the streets for a while, slowly working our way up toward the Acropolis. Lots of stairs and polished marble everywhere – flip flops were not the best footwear option, but we managed pretty well.
By the time we got up to the place where you entered the Acropolis, it was past five (and the Acropolis closes at 7:00) and we still had a 20-30 minute walk, so we decided to just get a ticket that can be used for several sites for the next four days, and we headed back down.
On the way down, we stopped to buy water, and there were gentlemen inside the store making jewelry. While I waited, one of them made me a pair of copper earrings. Very spirally and cool looking (thrifty too – only five Euro).
Since we were meeting Krystin (Caitlynn’s sister) by the metro stop at 7:30, we decided to walk through the lower Agora, where we made our way through all manner of ruins (pictures to come).
That took us to around 7:10, so we headed back to the metro and wandered around poking through stores and whatnot. Some of the blown glass around here is absolutely gorgeous.
We met up with Krystin and headed for food (which was great, because we had only had a snack by the hotel). I got lamb in a lemon sauce, which was delicious and came with potatoes. In general, we got a ton of food, and it was all pretty tasty. Toward the end of dinner, the food and the walking and the jetlag all seemed to hit pretty hard, so we headed back to our hotel. Krystin picked up the stuff that we had brought with us for her from America and headed back to her apartment.
So that was pretty much the day. On to our updates. We have decided to switch things up a little bit before Santorini. Tomorrow, we are going to (attempt to) take the 7:30 bus to Delphi. This will take around three hours. We’re going to spend the day there, and stay in the hostel in Delphi as planned.
On Thursday, we’re going to take the 9:00 AM bus back to Athens (getting in around noon). We’ve talked to our Athens hotel, and (theoretically) reserved our room for Thursday night as well. We’ll see about how well that actually works, but here’s hoping.
So we’ll spend the afternoon and evening visiting the Acropolis and some of the other sites that the tickets we bought get us in to. Should be lots of fun.
Then, on Friday, Katie and I are going to take a cruise. This cruise will start at 7:15 and take us to three different islands (Aegina, Hydra, and Poros). We’ll get back in to Athens around 7:45 in the evening. It seems like a pretty good deal – they take care of lunch and all the transportation, all for 99 Euro, which, since our car plans kinda blew up, fits our budget reasonably well too. It seems line a relaxing way to spend the day. Caitlynn and Krystin are going to take the day to see more of Athens and explore.
We will no doubt be crashing pretty early on Friday, as we have to be back at the airport on Saturday morning at 4:30 in the AM for our flight to Santorini. Wooo for Greek islands J
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