Ancient Athena

0Josh • 29th Oct 2006 • blog entries, travel

Its day one here in Athens, we got in yesterday afternoon and had just enough time to check into our hotel and explore the city for a little bit and plan out our day today.  We got to see many ancient sites today, including the Acropolis, Ancient Agora, and the Plakas (old town).  The Acropolis was pretty amazing, with many different temples, theaters and buildings on the top of this huge hill, right in the middle of the city.  The Parthenon is the most famous of all these sites, and it is currently under restoration.  One of my favorite places to see was “Mars Hill” where the apostle Paul preached to the people of Athens in 49 AD.  Last evening we called Lydia’s dad & wished him a happy birthday while we were sitting on Mars Hill over looking the entire city.  The Ancient Agora is also a place where Paul is said to have preached and debated with the people of Athens, its also where Socrates did a lot of his Philosophy in a public setting. We’ve taken over 700 pictures over the last two weeks, I’m excited to look through them and get the good ones online!

Today we also visited the National Museum, one of the most famous and important ancient museums in Europe.  We saw many cool things, all of which I’m sure you could learn about somewhere on the Internet, so I won’t even try and recap what we saw.

Its been a very long day, and even though its not even 6:00pm we are very tired after being on our feet all day long.  We’ll probably stroll back to the Plaka for dinner and head to bed.  In the morning we will leave here around 10am, and head to Paris for the rest of the day.