Athens / Rome

Quiet last day in Athens, had breakfast at 10am, delicious pancakes with strawberries, walnuts & honey for me, scrambled eggs, bacon, mushrooms for Neil. We then walked the streets, looked at multiple tourist shops, looked in the historical Panaghia Kapnikarea Church, took some photos and saw the notice on the way out NO PHOTOGRAPHY oops 🙊
After a couple of hours we headed back as it was 34 degrees and humid!
Out for dinner at the lineup of restaurants that is on the way to the Acropolis. We really rate Greek food and Greek coffee, the best we have had on our trip. Their Moussaka was delicious and Neil had salmon steak on lentils, so many gorgeous flavours. We have a lot of recipes to whip up when we get home.
We flew from Athens to Rome on the equivalent of JetStar. Neil was pretty cramped up but the 1 hour 45mins went by quickly so all good. When we got off the plane we picked up our luggage and left - no scanning passports, no immigration officers, no
luggage checks, felt so strange. Must be because we were still in the EU going from Greece to Italy but still ….. strange.
Our accommodation in Rome is right beside Roma Termini Train Station and only 20min walk from the Colosseum so great location again, thanks Debbie for our Athens & Rome accommodation.
We decided to pack up some more of our luggage and send it home, I want to buy some presents for the family and definitely don’t need long sleeved jerseys, puffy vest, & 3/4 pants.
Neil bought (a rather large box) from a hardware store and off we went at 2pm to post it, the Post Office was about a 1km away, doesn’t seem far, but carrying 5kg in 38 degree sun with it radiating off the black paving side walks, it was like being in a sauna. Got there and it was closed at 12:30 and not just for a siesta! We knew there was another one on the other side of the train station so off we go only to find it closed at 1:30 😬 Neil had a great workout 😂 Walked 3kms in total. The box can come with us for a ride in our lease car tomorrow until we find a PO with more congenial opening hours.
I have had a filling fall out, there are several dentists near us and the receptionist at our hotel told us to go to Sky Dental as you don’t need an appointment. I was there at 8am when the door opened. The receptionist just said no Doctors, we asked about tomorrow as we could put off picking up the lease car for a few hours but she just shook her head. She said if emergency go to Hospital. I have no pain yet so hopefully I can find a more congenial dentist somewhere on the trip as well.
After we walked to view the Colosseum this morning we had a coffee and met a lovely woman from New Zealand who was holidaying in Italy by herself. Her husband is back home looking after the market garden. She has travelled to some beautiful places, I take my hat off to her, because I am pretty sure I would not enjoy doing this by myself.
Last leg of our journey underway - Italy - we are looking forward to getting the car, seeing some countryside and staying in small villages - as long as we can get out of Rome in the morning!もっと詳しく