Yet another day in Athens

Well, I woke up this morning sore from walking too much, and spent the whole day walking anyway. And just now I've had a couple of pints, so I'm not sure how much effort I can be bothered putting into this post. But here goes anyway.

Antikethera mechanism. Yes THE antikethera mechanism, in
the national museum of archaeology, Athens. If you need
to ask what that is, we are no longer friends.

Today started by going to the national museum of archaeology - the biggest archaeological museum in Greece. Just let that sink in. Greece, with a culture rich in the kind of things archaeologists love to dig up that lasted like three thousand years. This museum was huge. Even Jan, who I thought had an insatiable appetite for this sort of thing, had a brainfart about an hour in and despaired at every new room we came across. It was still fascinating though.

Yet another spectacular view of the Acropolis, this time
from Philipappapou.

After that we headed off back into the city to mop up the few archaeological sites we didn't manage to see the day before, as well as the Acropolis museum and the Philipappou hill. The Acropolis museum was quite good, housing basically most of the shards and scraps of the Parthenon that were blown off it by the bloody Venetians as well as several models of the various temples on the Acropolis so you got a very good idea of what it would have looked like. The Philapapappapapou hill was the site of Pnyka, basically a rocky crag where ancient politicians assembled to discuss whatever it was ancient politicians discussed. At the top of the hill is a monument built in the second century AD, which is in fact a mausoleum to... someone. You get great views of the city, particularly the acropolis, from just about anywhere on the hill.

Anyway, as I've said it was a long, hard, hot, sore day and I really can't be bothered writing much more, so look at some pretty pictures!