It’s not easy being Greek: Spring break part 1
The trip was amazing. Athens. Rome. Florence. Venice.
The first city was Athens. The Acropolis was closed. Go figure. We are there for 2 days and the guards are on strike. We still go on a walking tour and get a good idea of the history of the city. We walked through Plaka, or old town, as well as a hill to get a good view of the city and the Acropolis. We visited Hadrian’s Arch as well as Zeus’ temple.
The food was awesome. We found this inexpensive place with lots of locals and delicious lamb kebabs. Come to think of it, there really weren’t that many tourists since it’s not the best time to visit Greece (too cold to Island hop). However, that was fine because we were able to meet a lot of locals. It was Carnival. On Saturday night after dinner, we searched for a fun place and settled on a small bar with loud music and dancing folks. We had a lot of fun throwing streamers, dancing and meeting some Greeks.
To be among such history is really overwhelming. Just walking through a museum and thinking, hey I’ve seen that before, is really fun and doesn’t happen unless you are in a museum of a large city. Even then, it’s usually only one or two pieces that I recognize. At the National Archaeological Museum and saw the famous Kore, Agamemnon’s Mask and the bronze sculpture of either Zeus or Poseidon. I appreciate my Greek Culture class immensely.
For sunset, we climbed the mount that St. Paul spoke to encourage the Grecians to follow one God. While climbing up the hill, we found some dog friends. In Athens, there is a city program to have dogs. They drop them off at parks and feed them, and the population takes them as their pets. We even named them. We had Delphi, Zeus, Nike and Poseidon.
Athens was not a particularly beautiful city nor did we have the best weather. Not as clean as I would have hoped, but the ancient history made up for it. Then we headed to Rome…