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8:30pm: Back at the hotel for an early night after a long day. Started early with breakfast at our hotel’s sister hotel a minute away and it was a fantastic huge buffet with no fewer than four kinds of olives alone plus an awesome view of the Acropolis/Parthenon. We then set out for the Acropolis - the main historical site here and one of the most important in the world. After about 10 minutes walking we found the entrance and went in. It is a massive site on a hill with several ruined buildings. The views of the city are great. It is a good thing we were there early as it was already starting to get hot and there were already tons of people (lots of cruise excursions it looked like). The ruins are definitely incredible and all things considered fairly well-preserved. There are a lot of ongoing restoration/conservation works going on as well.
After seeing the Acropolis itself, we went down to the Acropolis museum, which is a relatively new building and the artifacts from the hill are presented in a pretty cool way. We wandered around that for a while and then checked out Syntagma square, one of the main squares in the city where parliament is. There was nothing much there though besides a ton of traffic. We stopped at a Turkish bakery and picked up a variety of baklava for dessert tonight and wandered back down a main pedestrian shopping street that basically led right back to our hotel.
We dropped off a few things we had purchased and then went to lunch near the hotel. I had a souvlaki sandwich, which was a kebab of chicken on a pita with some other stuff and it was only 2.50 for more than enough food. We then wandered around a little bit and found the central market. I bough a pack of really tiny olives that I had never seen anything like before. We then came back to the hotel for a rest.
Before dinner we went to a place called “beer time” and Matt tried some local brews while I had a glass of Greek white. We then went to Taverna tou Psirri right nearby for dinner. Both of us were extremely tired and we decided to come back to the hotel for an early night.
Tomorrow is our last day and we will spend most of it on a food walking tour!
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