Athens!

I wasn't planning to post this quickly... but this first evening in Athens was unbelievable. Our trip started a bit shakily when right before we boarded the plane, our terminal was evacuated. But then we were allowed back in within 10 minutes. So no biggie. The flight was fine but since the Athens metro is under construction it took us 3 hours (!) to get to our hostel by bus/metro.

But the hostel is amazing (more on this in a bit). They recommended a good dinner place only 2 blocks away, and during the 5 minute walk there, I think all four of us took pictures of every single street we saw. It was SO beautiful. We sat outside and had delicious Greek food, and even though we didn't get there until after 8, we were way early. Apparently most people go out to eat dinner around 9:30 or 10 here. We walked around after and got some delicious zmrzlina (I will never stop using the Czech word for ice cream).

The other thing is... the Akropolis. When we got out of the metro by our hostel, I was looking at a map to try to figure out where to go, and when I looked up, the Temple of Athena Nike was staring back at me from the Akropolis. It was one of those jaw dropping moments. Our hostel was only a few minutes from the metro, but that was plenty of time to witness a guy being hit by a car (he was knocked down but walked away). I think it happened because they don't have crosswalks here. At least I haven't seen any yet.

After dinner we walked a close to the Akropolis as we could get, which was pretty close. We passed a bunch of ruins on the way which looked really cool at night. We came back to the hostel and just spent some time on the rooftop terrace bar that has an absolutely incredible view of the Akropolis. And since it's on the 6th floor, you can actually see a lot of the Parthenon (you can only see the very top from the ground view).

Tomorrow we're walking up to the Akropolis, and then we have to head straight to the airport for our flight to the island of Milos. I'll try to post some pictures from tonight while I'm there.