Greek Boys – Day 6

The Greek Boys – Day 6… and counting

Today was a beautiful morning with blue skies, billowing clouds and a huge breakfast included with our room.  We sat and gazed at the Acropolis and ate a fun mix of US and Greek foods – omelets with dolmades and feta cheese – Yum! We encountered a man there who told us all about the walk below and how Socrates was led along it to prison.

We set off full of excitement about the day to come.  The walk up to the Parthenon/Acropolis was much better than imagined.  The sun clouded over and there was a slight breeze and with a few pauses for pictures, the climb was fairly easy.  Easy enough apparently that my step counter didn’t count any of it as stairs! <grrrr>  We spent a good while looking at all the repair work being done, much of it correcting previous bad repairs.  They’re doing an amazing job of it!

History moment – the Acropolis is really big and really high up in the air.  It was Greek dedicated to Athena, then Christian dedicated to the Virgin Mary, then Ottoman.  The Ottomans were the most colorful as they stored their ammunition there and blew large chunks of it away.  The Greeks successfully decided to get it back and took out the middle section firing cannonballs from the sea – end history moment.

We descended the back stairway to visit the Agora which was the original Greek market – aka the Safeway of Greece.  Not much in the way of buildings, a few headless sculptures well worn, a nice church from the year 1,000 and an ancient tire lot – see pictures below.

We walked up to the temple of Hephaestus, supposedly the best preserved temple in Greece.  At least all of the columns were there!  Some of the upper artwork survived as well.  After that we entered the on site museum where the better preserved statues were kept.  Mostly heads of different Greek people from peasants to priests and the local ladies.

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We were given a free tasting of 6 Greek red wines and later a taste of port wine.  There was a map and a full description of all the wines sold there and the owners, a husband and wife, explained where each wine originated, what the soil was like, the wine’s characteristics and why one year was better than another.  We opted for salads with dried figs, feta and greens which proved delicious and plenty of food, ordered glasses of our favorites and two bottles to go, one for the evening and one to take back to the States.

We attempted a museum close to home but it was supposed to close in an hour so we opted for a well-deserved rest, another glass of wine and looked up a restaurant for dinner.  We’d just see it and the architectural museum the following day.

We met a delightful couple at the next table.  The gentleman was fairly quiet and we learned that this was because his wife couldn’t manage to shut up although she somehow managed to shovel in her food at regular intervals.  Despite her table manners we had a wonderful dinner and a quiet evening.

Finally things were back to normal…or so we thought during our sleep of the innocents!