Day 09, Piraeus and Athens, May 12

This is an interesting Port. Even a creative truck driver on the dock has his cab painted!

We have breakfast and get off the ship at 8:30 AM. We find our guide right away. We have a 5 hour tour of Athens today. 5 million people live here in 15 square miles. The traffic is accordingly terrible.

We board the bus and head out to see Athens. There are interesting old ruins all over the city. We arrive at the Acropolis (which only means “Top of the Hill or City”) and walk up to the Parthenon. 15,000 tourists visit the Parthenon every day! I think we see every one of them! I promptly get lost from our group. Glad we have an agreed upon meeting point so I just enjoy the area. At the agreed upon time, I go down to the departure point which is challenging in itself. But I apparently misunderstand the location and I am 50 yards off. Luckily, our phone plan allows calls without paying a fortune so I call Elee and we find each other.

Elee and I walk the mile and a half to the city center. It’s quite warm today and we stop for cold water and a light lunch. Then we find the bus to go back to the ship. On the ship I find a couple more random art pieces. The haze floats among the hills of Greece.

Back on the ship, it’s time for a brief rest out of the sun.