part 2.

Day I I planned to check out the bus station and then head to the Acropolis.  I did the former, but only after being drenched in hot coffee whilst celebrating my luck at being in a charming coffee house in the flea district of Athens.   I am still jumpy three days later, but the burn mark on my shoulder has more or less gone but that the time of the incident I was scared that I would be permanently scarred.   I tried getting the cafe to note the accident in their record book, only to be asked why I was trying to get the waiter the sack!  So not the ideal start to the vacation,  I sort of wondered round Athens in a shocked state, even having lunch in the very nice cafe at the Acropolis museum with the coffee still in my hair! Heaven knows what they thought, but finding out more about the history of the Parthenon and especially the terrible deeds of the dastardly Lord Elgin,  I was very and truly distracted from the incident.

display about Lord Elgin's method of looting from the Parthenon. 

Day 2.   Based on information about the new cultural centre in Athens I had bought a ticket to a children's show, only problem it started at 11, could not find the free bus, the tram was not operating and because the timing clashed with the opening of parliament had to get there via an alternative route.  So knowing this I left in plenty of time, however, even once I had found the outside of the building and the park surrounding, how to get in. I decided the entrance was via the park and the security guard telling me to go on up reinforced that so I really did go on up - up through the grass roof, up and up till I finally found a door, but security said the event was private and the only way down to the entrance was via the glass elevator that I was too scared to ride alone.    Security was kind enough to come down with me!  I got there in time and loved the show, it was a mix of animation and opera and live action.    It was nice to do something completely different.   Then in the afternoon I got to go to the Acropolis for free!!!!! All the world seemed to be climbing over it, but I guess that is what it looked like when it was first built.   It is right at the top of the hill, and I wasn't sure I would make it up, but I did, and so on my return felt I had to treat myself to a meal sat in the lea of the rock and next to Agora where Socrates would debate things.!

snfcc near Piraeus. 

Day 3.  Nice quiet start having breakfast in the sun in the square, then reading in the sun, before heading up to the Archaeology Museum where there are beautiful artefacts that are around 3000 years old!

Day 4 Now in Delphi,  which is in some ways just a quiet town, yet walking by the Temple of Athena way up in the mountains it seems so much more than that.  There is definitely something powerful here.