my longest walking tour yet

Today has so far been quite the long day. Met at my hostel's front desk at 915am for a walking tour. We saw ALL the big sites here in Athens and afterwards I walked through a market with someone I met on the tour. All in all I walked for about 7 hours straight today. Whew! Here are a few photo highlights....out of the about 60 I actually took today.

Most well-preserved temple in Athens.

On top of the rock location where Socrates was executed with Athens below in the background.

Theater of Isis - still in use today!

The Parthenon (@ the Acropolis.)

Zeus' temple - 16 columns remain standing today, but when it was first finished there were over 100!


The olympic stadium where the first modern olympic games were held in Athens. Holds 50,000 people.

So that's all for now. Going out for greek food, bars, and yes, probably some ouzo tonight with friends from the hostel. Headed to Patras, Greece sometime tomorrow! Not sure if there will be internet there (I'm staying in a hotel as there aren't any hostels there), so I may not be able to update this again until I arrive in Italy on June 2nd. We'll see if I can't scrounge up an internet connection somewhere though!