Athens Wednesday 6th September 2017

Leaving day. Ugh. No fun for us then.

After a late wake up and a leisurely breakfast, we walked the 200 m to the Acropolis Museum. What a deal: 5 euros to get in! Architecturally a wonderful building.

They do not like you using a camera inside, so if you are interested in what it looks like, this is the link to the official site:

http://www.theacropolismuseum.gr/en
 

The stuff inside, well one Minotaur starts to look like another. How it is presented is superb.  We enjoyed the audiovisual stuff and the odd small recreation of the pediment sculptures.

A nice cup of coffee in the cafeteria, which would have been worth five euros cover charge by itself.

One of the best parts was the top floor, which showed most of the frieze in position.

It was like having a view from a scaffold, high up.

Cannot believe the amount of work that was put into the carvings and friezes.  Very beautiful.  Takes a few days to start getting into the way of things here. A huge amount of work put into the museums to bring back some idea of the history of Greece.

Going to the airport, we were originally going on the metro, for the sum of eighteen euros.  The taxi was a fixed price of 38 euros, so for twenty euros extra we got a taxi.