Vrachonisídes Markélou

Today was International Museum Day and we wanted to avoid the crowds as much as possible, but we still wanted to go to the Acropolis Museum. We had planned to wake up early and go first thing but we slightly overslept so didn’t make it until a bit later. The crowds fortunately weren’t too bad (the line coming in when we were leaving was horrible) and we got to enjoy the museum before heading over to Hadrian’s Arch and the Temple of Olympian Zeus. This was a fairly quick stop — another semi-standing temple from ancient times. It was close to Veganaki so we headed there for lunch, and then went home to prepare for our afternoon day trip — we were booked on a tour to Cape Sounion to watch sunset at the Temple of Poseidon.

On the way to the temple we stopped at the oldest exisiting theatre in Greece (the world?), and then got to Sounion where we grabbed dinner at the cafe — surprisingly good, roasted veggies and a burger — before watching the beautiful sunset in front of the ruins of the temple.

We got home and desperately needed to do some washing and they had the facilities at our place, so we put on a load and then put it in the dryer but an hour later the clothes were still wet and it was 11:30pm. We felt bad for the people in the room right next to the laundry, so we grabbed our wet clothes and headed to the laundromat to dry them. A quick 30 mins and they were dry so we walked back home in the rain and were in bed by 1am. Both regretting our decision to do laundry.Read more