Since I don't really have much to say about Greece (besides the fact that it was a good trip, the museums openly admit that Greece peaked around 450 BC, and we found the most amazing restaurant that we went back to a couple of times. Feta cheese and house wine make for a good night), I will just add picture captions...
Cats and the smell of urine were omnipresent in Athens. The cats were mostly all friendly, though.
This is an example of something they found when digging to put in a subway tunnel. You can't swing a dead cat by the tail in Athens without hitting history. Cool for tourists, but probably pretty annoying for anyone trying to lay a buildings foundation (it automatically becomes a protected historic site).
There were a lot of theaters in Athens. No plays that we saw, though...
The protests over austerity measures were still going when we got there, but with riot police on every corner, the protesters were pretty tame.
I think the sanitation workers may have been on strike.
Acropolis around sunset.
Parthenon
Temple of Zeus with the Acropolis in the background and a cat making its presence known.
Huge junk shop with a ton of cool stuff. Unfortunately, the owner wouldn't haggle and I didn't have any bag space to spare.
Acropolis in the late afternoon.All in all, a good trip. Now it is December already. The time flies.
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