After lunch yesterday I booked a half day tour of Athens. When I got back to my cabin after dinner and the show the tickets were on my bed for a different tour. This morning I got up early at 5.30am and had 6am breakfast while waiting for the tour staff. They fixed it up and I had a very nice day.
email from mum -
I did a City Drive and visit to the New Acropolis museum. The museum is build on top of ancient ruins as are many buildings in Athens. It stands on columns and in places has glass floors so you can see the escavations underneath.
The upper floor of the museum has the same dimensions as the Acropolis, it is huge, with columns at the same spacing as the real thing. Quite eerie being in a place replicating the ancient temple. Many beautiful statues. They were indeed very clever people in those days, all done manually. They sure knew their anatomy.
From the museum we walked up to the parking lot to catch our bus and take more photos on the way. There are a lot of restorations under way and many places have scaffolding up. We drove through the city to the Old Olympic Stadium, still used to light the torches for the Olympics before they are run to the city hosting the games. We also saw the former Royal Palace with guards outside with 'miniskirts' on. It is now used for government offices.
Ruins under museum
Former Royal Palace
Greek Guards
this pic from google images
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