Athenian for a Day (or Two)
Wednesday November 23rd-Saturday November 26th, 2022 Our road trip finishes off in Athens after a roughly 4 hour, mostly highway, drive from Meteora. The weather continues to be on our side. Apparently it rained all day in Athens but by the time we checked in to our hotel, it had cleared right up. Athens is a big city - nearly half of the entire population of Greece lives in the area (approx. 5 million). Compared to everywhere else we've been to date, it's busy. Typical big city busy. Our hotel is in a great location, smack dab in the middle of the action, a stone's throw away from the Acropolis and anything else we might want to see. It's on a bit of a sketchy side street, but turns out almost all the streets in Athens are sketchy side streets. Graffiti, unsurprisingly is bad here. Very bad! And given the economic state of Greece over the last while, many things are in a state of disrepair or abandonment. On the flip side, other things are very much updated and upsca...
