Is that an old ruin, or just a rock?

Wow Athens is beautiful! I wasn't expecting too much because everyone I've met that's been to Athens says that its a bit crusty, but they're WRONG! Our hostel is right next to the Acropolis, so we went there early yesterday morning before the masses of people. The views were unbelievable! It's so weird to be standing amongst the stuff I've read about in text books for so long! They have a multi-sight pass, which, for 12 euros gets you into the acropolis, the ancient agora, agora (there's two), hadrians library, temple of zeus, and something else.





After that we joined up with a walking tour group that our hostel put on (woop woop only 5 euros!). Our guide took us around for about 2.5 hours and we went to the temple of zeus, the stadium, parliament, national gardens, the agora, hadrian's library, through the marketplace, around behind the acropolis through these teeny little streets that are designed to look like the greek islands because a whole lot of islanders came to athens for work and made the neighbourhood like home.






When the tour finished we wandered around town, and spent time at the ancient agora which is a really big complex, with its own little museum and a good lookout point where you can get great views of the acropolis. Its amazing how every turn in this city brings you to another ruin or church or something great to look at.







more later!
xx Laura