Athens Adventures

 

We still hadn’t gone to the Ancient Agora, Zaya needed a wreath head band and a dress and Kim needed a blouse, plus, Kim wanted to see folk dancing and we wanted more Greek Coffee from Nokki and olives.

When I had looked up things to do, so long ago, I didn’t see anything so had given up. Now I found some folk dancing on-line but I couldn’t get thru to the theater. I realized later that I had the wrong country code. Anyway, the dancing was in a very old theater near the Acropolis at 8 pm. We thought we’d do that at the end of the day.

We headed for the Central Market and got our coffee first. We are going to miss that coffee. From coffee we went across the street, bought tomatoes and olives then walked down several streets for Kim and Zaya to shop. Zaya found her golden head wreath
h and dress but Kim didn’t find the shirt she wanted.

We realized that all of us were hungry so we walked to the Souvlaki Strip for Chicken Souvlaki. YUM! One last time. 

From the Strip, we walked on to the Ancient Agora and strolled the streets and walked up the hill to the temple. It actually was very stormy, starting to rain. Fortunately, we had rain jackets so went on our way.

From the Ancient Agora we decided to just walk on to the theater for the folk dance, as it had stopped raining. We found the theater both on a Rick Steves map and on Google. We were fairly confident that we knew where it was. This is a hill outside of the Acropolis with lots of footpaths on it, some going across and some circling. 

We went on the main paved path, up a hill that didn’t look too bad. But then the map showed that we should turn off the main paved path and go up a hill. The path up the hill went straight up, like lots of stairs up. Kim’s knee started hurting so we gave up on that idea.

We then thought that we’d go around on the road to a closer entry to the park then enter. This was great until the foot path into the park narrowed into a small dirt path. We walked and walked, went up stairs in search of a good path. Finally, we came to the place where the map showed that the theater was, but there was nothing that we could find. It was getting dark and Dale and I decided that we had to get off of the hill and into civilization.

Some of the stairs. The path was much more narrow in many places

We found our way back to the road near the Ancient Agora and where there was a rooftop bar. We really needed a glass of wine with a view of the lit Acropolis.

Our view of the Acropolis from our table at the bar