Today was an exciting day in the largest city in Greece. We set off on our tour with the first stop being at the old Olympic stadium. It was built sometime in the 1800’s and seats close to 70,000 people. It’s amazingly beautiful looking considering the entire place is made of marble. We didn’t have much time here, just a few pics and then back on the bus.
Our next stop was the main attraction of the day, the Acroplis. The bus dropped us off at the base of the hill. We had to hike pretty far up just to make it to the top, but man was it worth it. Not only were the Pantheon and the rest of the temple ruins amazing to see, but the view of the entire city of Athens was incredible. You could literally view the entire city from this vantage point. We spent a lot of time with our tour guide learning about the history of the Acroplis as well as taking lots of memorable pics.
After we exited the Acroplis, we walked down some old city streets of Athens to a place called “La Placa”, which I don’t know what it means, but it was basically this city square with lots of shopping and restaurants. We were given about 2 hours of free time so we used the time to have lunch at an authentic Greek restaurant tucked on a little hilly street down some alley that we had passed on the way to La Placa.
We had a wonderful lunch and then shopped around a little more, walked around a bit more of the city area and then met back up with the group and took a long walk over to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier where we had the privilege of witnessing the changing of the guard, which was really interesting.
We then hopped back on the bus, and headed back to the boat. We had another wonderful evening on the ship taking in some of the main shows throughout the several venues on the ship
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WOW! These photos are amazing!!!