Day 588: Monastery of Daphni

Second World Heritage site in Athens, a Byzantine-era monastery with some nice mosaics. We headed here early in the morning, around 9am, though our trip took ages because of Athens's public transport. There was a direct bus leaving from a spot about 10 minutes walk from us, but when we got there and hopped on the bus, it turned out you needed a ticket from a metro station! So we walked another 10 minutes back to the metro, then just hopped on a train, then a different bus. Eventually we arrived.

It was just a small church in a now-ruined monastery on the outskirts of Athens. Nice mosaics, but we've definitely seen better in Ravenna and in Palermo as well. The best part about this is that it had been heavily restored since an earthquake in 1999 and only in the last few months had the scaffolding removed from both inside and out. Lucky us!

Back to Athens (again it took ages) and arrived around midday, done with our stuff for the day. We split up for a bit, I had an overdue hair cut and a bite to eat before heading home while Shandos went shopping. Moving on tomorrow!Read more