Spiros home town

OK - so have caught up with our travels so far. If you have not guessed we are now in Athens.

Arrived OK after the usual 'taxi driver tries to rip off tourist' scam. We are getting used to this by now and luckily had reinforcments with the lady that met us in Athens to show us around the apartment. What was a 40 euro ride he tried to charge and additional 20 euro.

Athens is a concreaters dream. They say there is no such thing as architects in Athens - only Civic engineers. So different to the amazing buildings of Barcelona. Modern Greek buildings could best be described as functional. There is the square flat, the square flat with balcony or the square flat with marble steps. The streets seem is a constant state of reconstuction and there are more bags of concrete outside every building than there are street lamps.

But today was spent enjoying great greek food and dragging the kids around the National Archaelogical Museum. Somehow the idea of looking at old pots and statues of more naked people did not excite them so we played a game of find the characters in the Hercules movie. While my ancient history lesson at school helped a bit it was still amazing seeing primitive 3500BC vases, 1600BC gold Mycenaean treasures, sculptures of the many gods and heros such as Zeus, Poseidon and my fave - Aphrodite - the goddess of looovveeee!

This eavening we sat and had a beer and watched the sun set over the 'tower of the winds' (2nd C AD tower) and the famous Parthenon (our trip tomorrow). Amazingly we have not had one day of rain and nearly every day has been sunny. I wonder if we will break the 2000yr drought in Egypt? But i speak too soon. We have 2 more days in Athens to explore so till next time.