14th October –
I'm beginning to think there will never be a need for a coat on this holiday….I
bought a beautiful Witchery jacket which I've been hanging out to wear.
But
Athens Greece has turned on the weather…its perfect and definitely not coat weather.
Today we very quickly secured a taxi driver (Chris) to chauffeur us for
the day. This turned out to be a great plan as Athens was chaotic and crowded
and we would never negotiated ourselves around like Chris did.
Our highlights included..
“Temple of Olympian Zeus” this
is the largest of the ancient temples of Athens dedicated to the god
Zeus....ruler of the Olympian gods.
The temple was built between 472 and 456BC
and took 700 years to complete.
The Acropolis .. I was not prepared for how huge this ..its dominating…and was quite a
climb up very crowded steps to the top but once atop the views were
spectacular.
The monuments at the top – THE Parthenon and Erectheum are in
varying stages of preservation and have withstood time quite well considering
they were constructed in c. 495 – 429 BC
Ancient Roman Agora – these
ruins were once the heart of Athenian life .. it was the center for markets..
civics and justice.
The
Old Olympic Stadium… was built on the foundations of the 4th century BC arena and
originally had wooden seating… in 329 BC it was rebuilt in marble and in 140AD
it was enlarged and renovated to give seating capacity for 50000. It hosted its first games in 1896 and then gain
in 2004.
The
Plaka district looked so cool and interesting and we would have loved to have
stopped …wandered and shopped…but it was already a jam packed day and the
traffic was NUTS.
Such an awesome day in Athens.
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