After the Acropolis, we climbed down to the Ancient Agora.
And here's a view of the acropolis from the Agora.
I actually liked the Agora it much better. It was much quieter, as there were not as many people around. There was a beautiful building called the Chapel of the Apostles.
There were lots of interesting carvings here and there, mostly Christian near the church.
A little further into the Agora there was a temple that we can’t remember the name of, though it involved centaurs.
The old civic center.
Weights from an ancient marketplace.
Hadrian. (Supposedly. I mean, how can you know if there's not a head?)
A merman outside The Roman Gymnasium.
More headless statues. (Fact: Greeks did not believe in heads.)
Some statues from a museum in the Agora.
After we got booted out of the Agora (they closed at 3 p.m.), we had lunch. I took some pictures, but I’ve decided that the food will be an entirely different post. Mmm, Greek food.
After lunch, we took a stroll along something called the Archaeological Walk. It took us past some really interesting spots, including something called Socrates’s Prison. They don’t think it was actually his prison, but it’s an awesome name. During the World Wars, they hid antiquities here to keep them safe.
The walk also led us to that hill I showed you before. It turns out that it’s a hill sacred to the muses. We climbed to the top of it to take a look at a shrine that was up there.
Also, I took a video to show just how enormous Athens is. Seriously, it’s mindboggling how big it is. I'm sure other cities are this big, but in Athens it's so open that when you're up high you can see everything.
On the way down the hill, we came across this odd little hermitage. Also, more poppies.
Also, we saw this weird plant. We started calling it an aloesparagus. I have absolutely no idea what it is, but it showed up all over Greece. These things are, like, ten feet tall and very mysterious.
During the day, there are dogs flopped down in every shady spot you come across. At night, the cats take over. That night, we ate dinner at a lovely little taverna. It is impossible to eat in Greece without having a cat stare at you. It aides the digestion, I think. Our cat was particularly cute, though, and I couldn't resist giving her some scraps of souvlaki.
After dinner we packed our bags and prepared to leave for Ios the next morning. We’d figured out how to get to the port by metro, but when we got to the correct metro station the connecting line was closed. After a moment of panic, we ran up to the street level and hailed a taxi who got us to the port just in time.
More on that later. ☺
And here's a view of the acropolis from the Agora.
I actually liked the Agora it much better. It was much quieter, as there were not as many people around. There was a beautiful building called the Chapel of the Apostles.
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There were lots of interesting carvings here and there, mostly Christian near the church.
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A little further into the Agora there was a temple that we can’t remember the name of, though it involved centaurs.
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The old civic center.
Weights from an ancient marketplace.
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Hadrian. (Supposedly. I mean, how can you know if there's not a head?)
A merman outside The Roman Gymnasium.
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More headless statues. (Fact: Greeks did not believe in heads.)
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Some statues from a museum in the Agora.
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After we got booted out of the Agora (they closed at 3 p.m.), we had lunch. I took some pictures, but I’ve decided that the food will be an entirely different post. Mmm, Greek food.
After lunch, we took a stroll along something called the Archaeological Walk. It took us past some really interesting spots, including something called Socrates’s Prison. They don’t think it was actually his prison, but it’s an awesome name. During the World Wars, they hid antiquities here to keep them safe.
The walk also led us to that hill I showed you before. It turns out that it’s a hill sacred to the muses. We climbed to the top of it to take a look at a shrine that was up there.
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Also, I took a video to show just how enormous Athens is. Seriously, it’s mindboggling how big it is. I'm sure other cities are this big, but in Athens it's so open that when you're up high you can see everything.
On the way down the hill, we came across this odd little hermitage. Also, more poppies.
Also, we saw this weird plant. We started calling it an aloesparagus. I have absolutely no idea what it is, but it showed up all over Greece. These things are, like, ten feet tall and very mysterious.
During the day, there are dogs flopped down in every shady spot you come across. At night, the cats take over. That night, we ate dinner at a lovely little taverna. It is impossible to eat in Greece without having a cat stare at you. It aides the digestion, I think. Our cat was particularly cute, though, and I couldn't resist giving her some scraps of souvlaki.
After dinner we packed our bags and prepared to leave for Ios the next morning. We’d figured out how to get to the port by metro, but when we got to the correct metro station the connecting line was closed. After a moment of panic, we ran up to the street level and hailed a taxi who got us to the port just in time.
More on that later. ☺
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