On the second day we went to the Acropolis. Unfortunately, they've been doing restoration work on it for about 7 years now and there was scaffolding all over the place. What really sucks is that it looks like they're only working on one building at a time, but they put the scaffolding on all the buildings except for one. And there were only about 4 or 5 guys working when we were there. No wonder it's taking so damn long. But even with the masses of metallic eyesores, it's still all very impressive. It took us about 2 hours or so to wonder around and check out all the cool stuff up there, then we headed back down the hill and had lunch at another outdoor cafe at the bottom. I had some fantastic baked meatballs in a tomato sauce. Mmm-mmm!
They only charge 12 Euros (about 18 bucks) to get into the Acropolis, and the ticket is good for 6 other historic sites around the city, so we went to check some of those out next. It's a really good deal considering all the stuff you can see, and I think they could easily charge twice that much if they wanted to. We spent the rest of the day at the Ancient Agora, the Roman Agora, and the Tower of the Winds. All of which are mostly ruins, with lots of cool columns and huge half broken pots everywhere. All definitely worth seeing.
Once it got dark, we just wandered around the city some more. You can see the Acropolis from almost anywhere and it's lit up beautifully at night. But like an idiot, I didn't bring my tripod so I couldn't really get any good night shots of it. We weren't very hungry since we had a pretty late lunch, so we just grabbed a little McDonald's and headed back to the hotel for the night.
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Super jealous that you get to see all this stuff, construction or not. But I have a question that is more just for my curiousity. Did the McDonalds in greece serve anything a little unusual? Only reason I ask is when I went to Germany, the McDonald's served beer which I of course though was genius. I would totally go for McNuggets and beer every single day! Well maybe that's a good reason for our McDonalds not to serve beer...
Sorry, no beer. But it was a pretty small store, maybe the bigger ones have it. The only thing unusual that I saw was a sandwich (or burger?) called the "McFarm", whatever the hell that means. I didn't risk it.
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