Men In Tight and Scary Pompom Clogs!!!
Trip Start
Dec 13, 2007
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Trip End
Jan 06, 2008
Athens, Greece
Sunday, January 6, 2008
So the final day in Hodge and Costello's adventure and a weird flight at 3.45am in the morning and the dodgy Egyptians from Olympic airlines trying to charge Aimee twice for her ticket at the airport and useless security checks.
A treat was needed mandm's and almost stale bread in an upper crust roll...oh my god what were we doing.
The flight was surprisingly OK and i sleep most of the way, complete result and as we landed we briskly walked straight through EU imagration...haha...egyptians who's getting hassled now??? Bad checked in and sunrise on the metro and a quick sleep again.
An hour later and we were in central Athens ready for our day walking around, actually nothing was open..so we had a quick coffee and waited for opening time at Agora, part of ancient Greece and temple central!!
It was free to get in..result..apparently a Greek holiday, in fact everything else was free for the rest of the day..even more of a result. So we wandered around Agora, checking out some crazy old cool Greek s**t.
Here in the park/ruins are amazing views up to the Acropolis, so we wondered around and found a view point between two on top of an old rock, well it had some sort of historical significance, but I can't remember.
Onto the main thing I had come here to see The Parthenon and The Acropolis.
I knew it was a land mark but didn't realized how much i dominated the Athens skyline, only shame is that its a bit of a building site, the Greeks are completely renovating the site using tradition methods. Also we saw the area were the Brits had stolen the Mable's....concrete replaces, I must be time we gave these back to the Greeks!! So because were the temples is the views around the city are brilliant and actually Athens was a lot more hilly than I thought I would be....
Onto an Amphitheater and Temple of Olympian Zeus.....final temple of the holiday hurrah!!
The next treat was one to remember, we ended the morning watching the changing of the royal guards at the palace. Now you thought we had funny royal guards with the big old bear hats...the Greek dudes were white tights, clogs and pom poms on the end of the clogs and actually they walk like a Russian guards.
All very bizarre and entertaining, maybe it was a scary ploy against there formal enemies!! Who knows!! But good fun and drink time and yes we found a starbucks...another results and a hot chocolate later I could easily of slept...doh flight wasn't for another 9 hours.
So how did we fill the time in??? Shopping and eating of course...
I managed to bag a fake Argentina footy shirt, glasses and we found some badges for our backpacks!!!
We had a pretty damn good lunch in Athens, which again surprisingly has some brilliant pedestrian areas and cafes...i thought it would be a lot more grubby, but the place is pretty damn good.
We tried to fill the afternoon with cinema but everything was shut, so we returned and waited at the airport early.
Apparently in the morning there had been an Earthquake...probably to tied to feel it!!!
So a little late back to England, we had to wait for 30mins for someone at Easyjet to open the terminal gates, thanks for that, but even more thanks the gatwick ground crew for letting us wait for almost two hours for ours bags. Good job Aimee didn't have to be back here at 6am the following day, or I had to get a train to Lincoln.
Shattering end to an amazing holiday with one of the WAGS!!!
Comments
What a way to end your trip!
I've always wanted to go to the Acropolis. I never knew about the royal guard, but it sounds awesome. Are you going to post photos?
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