The hill in the background is called Lycabettus Hill. We had plans to get to the top but never did. One reason we wanted to venture up the hill was that there was a funicular railway there, and twice our attempts to use a funicular in Barcelona were prevented due to them being non-operational.
An entrance to Tower of London that you would not have wanted to used.
We didn't get a photo of us eating our Thanksgiving meal, but I did snap this shot of our drinks. Mine is the beer.
I was so engrossed in my task of setting up my camera to take a group photo that I didn't realize that someone was taking a photo of me.
The "hidden" zoo in the National Park, where cats and chickens co-exist peacefully.
First, I want to point out that for some reason photos uploaded to blogger don't open withing IE. I assume this is something done by Blogger, since it is happening to multiple blogs on several computers.
As you can see, the sites in Athens sit right in the middle of the modern city. This is part of Hadrian's Library with the Acropolis in the background.
A photo of me standing at the Temple of Apollo, I believe, on Aegina.
Tower of London, another site in London that I didn't get a chance to visit. Sounded like a worthwhile stop, but no time on this trip.
The hydrofoil we took to the island of Aegina. Fast and smooth ride.
Every so often the sun shown through the clouds making the columns glow for a good photograph.
A view of the Acropolis taken a few blogs from our hotel on our first day in Athens. The Acropolis can be seen from almost anywhere in the city, which made for a good landmark to use so we knew where we were in reference to our hotel.
I'm not sure what we're cheering, but it must be exciting. In fact, I'm not sure what events took place in this theatre. Unlike Peru, we had no private guided tours. I'm sure we would have learned much more about the Greek culture, but we relied instead on a tourist guide book.
Like I said before, we beat the tour bus crowds to the major sites. This was taken by one of the cats we befriended.
It almost appears that the people are ice skating, but there are just going about their business. Like Barcelona, there were Christmas decorations all along the street, but we never saw them turned on except on the last night, but only down by the port.
A view of Athens taken from high atop the Acropolis. You can see the Ancient Agora building sitting below among the green trees.
Another great view of the city of Athens in the background, we me in the foreground looking very old, for some reason.
This is the closest we came to finding an Antoni Gaudi inspired bench. And it just happened to be a cow!
