We woke up this morning in Athens, had breakfast in the ship, and finally disembarked. We were so ready to get off that cruise ship and back to our nice hotel. First things first, laundry. We had heard there was a place we could drop it off and pick it up later (which wasn’t open the first time we did it) so we took a cab over there to drop off our dirty clothes. The lady told us to pick them back up at three so now that we knew the way, we walked back to the hotel to get directions to our next adventure. J and I wanted to see the Olympic rings while here. I had seen them in London and thought they were at every site the Olympics were held at, but maybe that wasn’t the case. We asked for directions at the hotel on how I get there and were told it was a three hour bus ride. Yup, no thanks. Not happening. That was out of the question. We had figured they were at the Olympic stadium from the Athens games in 2004, but apparently they are all the way out in Olympia. We weren’t going to make a six-hour round trip so we went to our second agenda item, exploring the neighborhood of Psyri. I had heard this neighborhood had some cool street art and we hadn’t really had time to walk around it before and it wasn’t a priority, but with free time today, we went for it.
We took the train over there and while walking around found a local farmers market that literally made me gag from the smells of the meat and the spices in the hot air. Vom. We had to leave immediately because I was dry heaving. Then we basically just wandered in and out of different side streets in that neighborhood; once again off the beaten tourist path. There was a ton of graffiti, but very limited actual murals and real street art. It was kind of a hipster neighborhood that looks like it was in the midst of gentrification. There weren’t a lot of people around and really not much to see so we walked through the flea market again and found somewhere past there to grab lunch. We got our usual of a greek salad and tzatziki, and then just made our way back to the train. We took it back to our “home” station and headed over to pick up our laundry. However, before that, there was this giant sculpture we had wanted to get pictures of. We passed it everyday while here in Athens before, but never got a chance to snap a good picture. It’s a sculpture of a running man, Domeas, and as a runner, I obviously had to get a pic. Duh.
We grabbed our laundry and headed back to the hotel to go swimming again. It’s nice to have a pool we were actually looking forward to getting into again. Ahhh, hotel life. It was so nice to relax a little and swim, but soon enough, it was time to get dinner. Since it’s our last night in Greece and the Canadians as well, we wanted to grab dinner with them and say our goodbyes. We also went on he roof deck of our hotel to watch the sunset tonight. The view up there is awesome. You can see the Acropolis and Mount Liccabettus (both of which we went to). It was an early night for us before an early wake up call before heading on our flight to Croatia tomorrow for the second and final leg of this trip!
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