Back from Greece...Too Much to Share

      It was a rough trip back yesterday with two stops, a frantic run to catch the second leg in Vienna, and delays in Canada. I'll need the next few days to catch up sleep, laundry, and pound massive amounts of something to squash my angry hip but will do a better recap soon. Here's a few snippets. The view of the Acroplis never gets old.

View from Philapaupas Hill

Statue at the Ancient Agora of Hadrian

Law court...now museum at the Ancient Agora



Need to look up this but part of Philapaupas Hill
This was legendary Socrates Prison. During WWII, the Greeks hid antiquities from the Nazis then sealed the caves. We found a few sites that served that purpose. 


The top of Philapaupas

The Olympic Stadium

Zeus arm

Mask of Aggemennom 

Thinking big thoughts at Hadrian's Library 

Sites at the flea market

Cluster of ancient clay pots outside the Odean of...

Outside the Odean of...


Exhibit outside Acropolus Museum 

Five of six of the Caryatids

Coastal scenes- not much time to see the sea...next vacation here.

Beautiful and amusing turtles
 in the National Garden

Hadrians Arch

    I'll do a better recap in a few days  but wanted to share something. You've been such a great support to me in what began as a spur of the moment booking. Athens lived up to my dream and I'd like to explore more in the future.



Comments

  1. VixMarch 14, 2026 at 11:12 AM

    Yay! I adore Athens and absolutely loved seeing it through your eyes. It looks like you were blessed with the weather like we were. I hope you loved the Greeks and their hospitality as much as we do and am delighted that you've already mentioned another holiday!
    That cave is said to have been where Socrates was imprisoned before he poisoned himself with hemlock. xxx

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. SAMMarch 14, 2026 at 11:37 AM

      I thought that too about the cave, but then we came across the one labeled as Socrates Prison. I'll add that above.

      Delete

Post a Comment

If you comment anonymously, it'd be nice to have a name to go with the comment. It helps me string other people's comments and therefore their experiences together.

Popular posts from this blog

It's Worse Than I Imagined

      The shit show since January 20th has been a big reason for my reclusiveness the last few weeks. Let the comments fly. Create a crisis. Lie that you resolved it. Get your sycophants to suck it all up. Rinse. Repeat...for four F' ing years.  Oh, and let's shout, "but her emails" while a foreign oligarch is raiding our private personal data with his hoard of teenagers. Let's pardon January 6th criminals, several of which immediately committed additional crimes.  I said it was going to be my only political post election post but man, it's even worse than I could have imagined.
Read more

Cancelled

      Twice Friday I was notified of cancellations. First, my original flight to Athens in March was cancelled and they rescheduled...two days later!What for the sake of Pete is that crappy rescheduling?  Sure, I want to fly  and sit in layovers for 17 hours just to lose two days of my vacation. I rejected that reschedule obviously my. Lots of back and forth with options presented with multiple four+ hour layovers, and eventually landed on one that diggers by about four hours total from the original, but is a 2-stop. I kept reminding myself the journey is part of the opportunity and round trip tickets to Greece from Minnesota for $600 are about as low as a person can find. This was why I bought my Kindle as to do more and frequent travel, I'll have to exchange time, lots of layover time, for money.      Then, several hours later, as I'm checking for updates on the flight, I got notification of another cancellation. This one was for that bloggers c...
Read more

So Very Tired

      Apologies to Michb as I think I deleted her comment from my last post. I've never read anything but kindness from you, so please know the lost comment was not intended. I'm just really tired- who knows if others were deleted too. Any supportive comments are appreciated, though likely won't be discussing my in-laws in my blog much in the future. It's not fair for me to write about them or have any expectations.      We think the raccoon issue is resolved, but not before yet another call. It's not cheap to have critter incursions resolved. I was lamenting to my son that maybe I shouldn't try and keep the house. He's a help of course, but this isn't his long term plan, or quite frankly intermediary plan. His response was that yes, it is a lot of house and property to take care. He knows my husband handled the bulk of house maintenance and outside care. My son's been a city living apartment dweller since his junior year of college. He'll be a c...
Read more