Today we went on a Walking Tour of Athens. The weather was overcast and cool for starters. We toured today with a group from Cruise Critics that we met on the ship. Mom and Dad did a city tour with the ship since we were going to be doing a lot of walking. Since there have been a lot of riots in Athens we were hoping that wouldn’t be the case today. It is Sunday and our tour guide told us that they don’t riot on Sundays. Since it was early there weren’t a lot of people out and traffic wasn’t bad.
As our tour started our guide gave us a little history of Athens at the Arch of Hadrian. As we walked through Athens we also visited The Temple of Zeus. Our walking tour continued to the Old Olympic Statium. This stadium hosted the Olympics in 1986 and was also used in the 2004 Olympics. We then went to The Greek Parliament where we also saw the changing of the Presidential Guards.
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| Arch of Hadrian |
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| Temple of Zeus |
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| Old Olympic Stadium |
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| Parlament |
We stopped at a church that had been damaged by an earthquake and was being repaired. I was surprised that with all the scaffolding that was up, that they would let anyone in the church.
We then started our long walk up to the Acropolis where we saw The Parthenon, The Temple of Hephaestus, The Odeon of Herodes Atticus and spectacular views of Athens. It was a long climb to the top and it was well worth it.
Our guide also took us down in their subway and showed us some of the artifacts that were found while digging the subway. It was like a mini museum.
Oct. 31 – Last day at sea.
Today is Halloween and we met one last time with the cruise critic group to share stories and email addresses. It was great getting to meet and tour together. We also packed up most of our things since we are almost at the end of our cruise and it was the last formal night.
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| Friends we met from cruise critics |
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