Athens, Greece

November 1, 2011

Some parts of Athens reminded me a lot of boroughs outside of Manhattan in New York City. It was somewhat run down and congested. Athens was very difficult to navigate–in part because none of us spoke Greek and to make matters worse, we couldn’t read the language either–it’s a bunch of symbols! Arriving to Greece and trying to get to get to our hostel had to be the most challenging thing I’ve done in all of my European travels. …Seriously. No one could help us. No one spoke English! So we used the metro system they had and maps. We finally made it. However, on our way to the hostel, we noticed a protest going on. This didn’t look safe to me. Me and Judith looked at each other like, it’s time to go..and I mean go! We picked up our pace to get in doors.

The next morning, we took a bus that took us to The Temple of Poseidon. The bus took a route that followed the coast. The views of Greece along the water were just awesome. Greece has to have the bluest of waters, I’m telling you. As the sun shined, the watered sparkled. It was beautiful. We got to the Acropolis pretty earlier so we had the ruins pretty much to ourselves. You know what that means–photo shoot! We also spent some time reading the signs that they had telling us about all the gods in that people worship there, including the sun.

Later on we decided to go to The Acropolis. All of the ruins were great to see. It was a beautiful reminder that the history was present. But at some point, all of the ruins started to look the same to me. I also came across an old amphitheater. I thought that was pretty cool!

As the sun was setting, we decided to end the night with Kebabs for dinner! On our way back we saw a lady making wire necklaces of your name in Greek. Of course I wanted one…

By the second day, I was tired of looking at ruins. I didn’t know how much more my camera roll could take. So instead, we decided to get breath taking views of the city of Athens!