We woke us at 5AM this morning after our last night on the Islands. We caught a flight out to Athens, had a 5 hour layover, then on to Dubrovnik Croatia. We are now settled down for a few days right by the walked city.
So what to do with a 5 hour layover in Athens? As good Portlanders we went to the Acrop-olis. Here are a bunch of photos. One thing I never appreciated was the view from the top. You can see all of Athens, your enemies approaching by sea and all that. Mostly it made me watch to rewatch Clash of the Titans. And wow, it was only 8:30 and really crowded
Hadn’t realized the Acropolis was so decayed. Wonder if it makes any sense at all to partially rebuild it.
That’s a seriously white-colored city. Never seen anything quite like that.
I was surprised by that too. There was a lot of rebuilding going on. I didn’t get to read all he details so I don’t know of they are going for a full hisorical rebuild. From what I’m reading a lot of it is for safety. Fun tidbit. In addition to damage from age and weather and earthquakes maybe, a restorer In the 1920’s attached all kinds of iron reinforcements to be structures….a hundred years later these have expanded enough to cause damage of their own