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  • Day 89

    Saw some acient ruins and city at night

    August 4, 2023 in Greece ⋅ ☀️ 35 °C

    We bought dj decks yesterday so spent all morning learning that. In the afternoon we explored the city again but this time got a much better view of the acropolis. We chose not to go up there today because it was too hot, instead we checked out some of the other ruins underneath it (Temple of Hephaestus). There was a fair bit to look at and it was pretty cool! The buildings we saw were made in 400 bc and to my surprise almost entirely out of marble! For some reason I always thought they were limestone so i was just walking around imagining how sick all these huge shiny buildings would've looked when they were new. We got to see a bunch of cool artefacts from that time as well. The most interesting to me was the broken bits of pottery that people had used to use to vote. I couldn't believe that I was looking at peoples actual ballots from 2000 years ago! It was also interesting to learn that back then they would vote for the politician they hated the most too, and whoever got the most of those votes was banished from athens for 10 years lol. Had a bunch of dips for lunch, Greek tzatziki is the same as Perths. At night we climbed back up the hill near our house and had a few beers up there. The view was so much cooler at night. Hopefully spencer gets some tinder dates here coz thatd be a perfect spot ahahaha. You can see the hill im talking about in some of the pictures I took in the city, it's the big pointy one.Read more