Fri 27th Sept (Cruise DAY5: Athens Greece)

  • Dock at Piraeus.
  • Athens tour bus, old and run down, dirty.
  • Trav banged head in bus.
  • Athena goddess of wisdom From the head of Zeus after headaches
  • Owls wisdom
  • Athena spear produced olive tree
  • 3000 year old olive trees
  • Athena also called Niki (or Nike) and Athenas wings are depicted by Nike swish
  • Mycemians era 3000 bc. Inhabited the Acropolis. Persians then conquered.
  • Acropolis means highest part of a city. There are many Acropolises throughout Greece
  • Parthenon is the structure we know well atop the hill.
  • It slants slightly inwards also no straight lines, all slightly curved intentionally
  • Walked into centre of town, found nice cafe in piazza, lunch of cheeses and fruits etc and coffee fredo (iced coffee yum).
  • Sam went on her own to find bauble.
  • Walk back to meeting point for bus. Back to ship.
  • Saw Christine solo act, very good.? We are now her groupies, as she played Foo Fighers My Hero.

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