Today was the day that we visited the Acropolis. History Moment: The Acropolis of Athens is an ancient citadel located on an extremely rocky outcrop above the city of Athens and contains the remains of several ancient buildings of great architectural and historic significance, the most famous being the Parthenon. The word acropolis comes from the Greek words “highest point, extremity”) and πόλις (polis, “city”). The Parthenon is a former temple, on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece, dedicated to the goddess Athena, whom the people of Athens considered their patron. If you go to Athens, this is the sight that you want to see.
We started out early to try to beat the crowds and with jackets and coats. (Actually, Debbie kept her sweater on the longest. She told the others she needed the sweater because that she wasn’t huffing as much as they were. There was a response about Debbie going slow, blah, blah) The higher that we got the harder the wind blew and colder it got. Once on top, the group began to drift apart. Debbie and Joyce listened to descriptive podcasts (intellectual) while Jerry and Larry took pictures (let’s say artistic – Joyce actually did both. Debbie’s cell phone shots don’t count – although they were magnificent).
The Acropolis included another temple, the Erechtheion. Joyce had told Larry and Jerry to meet at this temple. They found Debbie at the Erechtheion because she was huddled by the wall and a tiny worker’s building for wind protection. This little building had a door with a window that said private where inside a man sat looking out the window at the temple. The building looked like someone sat a large man on a stool and then built 3 walls and a door around him. We don’t think you could turn around in the room. Larry, and Jerry joined Debbie huddling by the wall. The man in the room kept looking at them suspiciously (actually, there was only way to look out of the little building) so they decided to go stand downwind behind the Parthenon. (It was really because they were just cold. This proved to be a major mistake. Really? How hard could it be? ) They kept checking by the temple but never saw Joyce. They encountered the first whistle blower. As they were headed for the new waiting area, a lady blew a whistle. It was a bit like yelling “Freeze” in freeze tag. Everyone on the Acropolis froze. Everyone looked around trying to figure out who blew the whistle. We finally decided that it was one of the Japanese tour guides that was rounding up her group. (We didn’t know what everyone else decided but they started moving).
We could not find Joyce so, Debbie decided to circle the entire top of the Acropolis (no small feat – her scarf blew off and she had to chase it around the Acropolis) and Larry and Jerry were gone from the place that she had left them. After a while, Larry, Debbie and Jerry, found each other and decided to travel like a pack of dogs. We received a text message from Joyce that asked if we were at the steps so we answered “No, we are behind the Parthenon but we would come to the steps”. Only part of the message went through so we changed places. Finally, everyone stood on the steps waiting for Joyce until she appeared. We did hear the whistle blower again. (The tour guide must be having trouble.) The total search took 45 to 60 minutes.
Once reunited the group proceeded down to the Areopagus (Mars Hill). It is a bare marble hill next to the Acropolis . History Moment: It was here that the Apostle Paul delivered his famous speech about the identity of “the Unknown God.” There was a nice path up and around the hill but Debbie and Larry got so excited that they scrambled up and down the hill. (Debbie doesn’t know what happened to them, other tourists were shouting “Watch out for the slippery rocks” but no they were all over it. What happened to Safety first?)
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After standing in the wind for a couple of hours and having been exposed to 3 weeks of the crud, Debbie started to cough.
As they descended the Acropolis, they found the Greek Agora. History Moment: The word Agora is Greek for ‘open place of assembly. It was an interesting place with little wind, shade, many different buildings and fewer people. It included a Greek stoa which is a covered walkway or portico, commonly for public use, (The open shopping center), a drainage ditch, museum, a temple, Church of the Holy Apostles, and lots of ruins. While we walked through the Agora, we heard the whistle again. This time it was a different lady sitting in the shade except she yelled at people. We realized that when you did something incorrect in the historic sites that the guards blew a whistle. (Debbie is thinking that this would be a good retirement job. You sit in a chair in the shade and when someone does something wrong, blow a whistle. The group is also thinking of getting a whistle for Joyce to direct the group. The whistle would have helped everyone find Joyce much quicker).
We had lunch and scored another free dessert! Debbie was thrilled. However, both Joyce and Debbie were both coughing and Joyce has slowed down considerably so they called it an early day.
