Agoraphobia* (Sun 28)

Straight off to the Acropolis. Why?... as an unnamed youngest daughter might have said on a different day ... "Because the Acropolis is Athens". We listened to a Rick Steves audio tour as we wandered round in 10degrees - glad to have missed the baking sun and crowds of summer. Awe-inspiring and huge and the whole thing built in a short period of 50? years. Great the way they have recently keyed in new bits of marble in places to allow some reconstruction. Amazing the way the Parthenon is not squared up but has been built with slight "leaning in" angles so it is more imposing and pleasing to the eye. 

Afterwards Meg read us Paul's plea to the Athenians from Acts 17 on nearby Mars Hill (the Aereopagus). A Rick Steves tour of the ancient Agora (central market place) included a look at some interesting things like voting devices to ostracise someone from Athens (go for a majority with a quorum of 6000 people to banish them for 7 years), or a child's pottery potty seat. We managed to hold off eating lunch (pictured) until the barely civilised time of 2pm. Shopping, eating, resting, then dinner including "best tzatziki ever" with a band at our nearby square.

* Rick Steves joke might make more sense now ...