On the apocalypse and taverna crawls

I had the nicest lie in today, it was fantastic. Every time I wake Kyle up he sounds surprised when I tell him the time, it's quite funny because he says "Really?!" as if I'm lying about it. We met up with Abigail and Gareth and decided it was about time we all went up to the Acropolis. I suggested we get sandwiches and have a picnic up there, so we went and got some cheese pies, their like cheese pasties and are completely fabulous. And so with cheese pies in our bags set off for the Acropolis on foot. On the way we passed the Temple of Olympian Zeus (I think there is a pic in previous post). We passed a few little bars and restaurants on the way and said we would have to stop in one or two of those on the way back. When at the bottom of the Acropolis it is quite impressive.

We had the best luck when we got today off and went to do this, it was lovely and warm, we wandered around in T-shirts and were still boiling hot. The walk up from here might look horrendous, but in actual fact its not that bad and is quite nice, still got a work-out from it though. We then cam upon the theatre of Dionysis, which when it was first built must have looked amazing.

Yes this is the Theatre of Dionysis, it was quite impressive, on the photo above there is a chair, there were a couple of these in the front row, we think they were for high ranking officials to sit in and watch performances, there is also a podium where a throne would have been to the right of the chair (above), unfortunately I did not get a picture of this. We continued to walk upward and found a really nice picture spot, from there you could see for miles out to the coast, other hills in the city and mountains further off.

                                             From left to right: Kyle, Abigail, Gareth and Me.

We then walked past a large theatre, which apparantly has shows on now and then, it was very impressive.

It was a short walk from here up to the Acropolis, and the views were just stuning.

On the Acropolis there was lots to see, such as random cats that nagged us for cheese pies. I gave them the nickname Athina's Cats, and here some of them;

And now for the second part of this day, the Taverna Crawl!

After having our large trek up to the Parthenon we came back down and decided it was high time we all had a nice cold beer.

Mine was the Heineken, Kyles was the Amstel, Abigails was the Mythos and I cant remember the name of Gareths but his is the one that looks like a bulmers bottle. I have to say that combined with the heat they went straight to all our heads, it was a good laugh working our way back to Syntagma and our next taverna, the trendy bars were too expensive for our small student budgets. we all had a Mythos at the taverna and sat chatting while the sun went down behind the Acropolis and Ancient Agora, which were then lit up and it was so beautiful I could have stayed there all night under the patio heaters and having a laugh with mates.

For some reason every time Kyle said Acropolis I thought he said Apocalypse and all of the night i couldnt get my words out and kept calling the "Acropolis" the "Apocalypse" (hence part of the name of this post). It was a good night had by all. Only shame was I never did find anywhere that does cocktails and I look chinese in most of the pics with me in them.

Goodnight x