We stayed at a beautiful hotel (The Grande Bretagne) across the street from Parliament in Athens. We had an amazing dinner there with a view of the Acropolis and a gorgeous sunset. Every day and night there is the changing of the guard in front of the parliament. It is quite a spectacle to watch. Lots of people come out to watch every day.
We try to do a walking food tour whenever we get into a new city. We walked through all kinds of side streets to little local diners and had a magnificent day of food. I was amazed at the large amount of graffiti and tagging all over in the capital city. We were told that much of it came about during the local form of BLM protests. The problem is they have no program for removing or cleaning up the graffiti so for now it stays until the government figures out what they want to do.
The Amazing Acropolis
Though Covid was winding down last fall, people were still not traveling so much. Everywhere we went we were asked over and over again to send our friends to travel. Countries like Greece, Italy, Kenya, and Turkey are very dependent on tourism so they are really hungry to get people back into their country. On our day at the Acropolis we just walked up to buy a the ticket and headed to the top of the hill. We got there early and there was no crowd whatsoever. By the time we left two hours later it had begun to get a little crowded.
The Acropolis of Athens is an ancient citadel located on a rocky outcrop above the city of Athens and contains the remains of several ancient buildings of great architectural and historical significance, the most famous being the Parthenon. The structures are massive and just beautiful. They were built in the 5th century BC. We walked all around the ancient buildings were they are still doing lots of restoration on many of the buildings at the Acropolis. This is a must see if you go to Athens. The history is amazing. One of my favorite spots was the amphitheater that is still used today. They were setting up for Sting to do a show that night.
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