The next morning we walked to the end of our street and found the Acropolis. The aim was to arrive early and beat the crowds so it's scary to think how busy it would have been if we'd arrived much later. Although we know that the reconstruction and maintenance of the site is important, it made it hard to get the full effect. There was only one angle we could view the Parthenon from and not see heaps of scaffolding. We walked around to see the Theatre of Dionysus and then we walked over to what's left of the Temple of Olympian Zeus.
The afternoon was spent doing necessary domestics - grocery shopping, organising laundry etc. After carting our laundry across central Athens to discover that the laundromat was closed, we (and our dirty laundry) went for Baklava instead. For dinner we ate outside by candlelight at a beautiful Greek taverna with the illuminated Parthenon about 200 metres away. We had flower sellers offering us roses, and an ancient guy with an even ancienter camera offering to take our photo.
The next morning, we managed to get to the laundromat while it was open, and left our laundry with the little old Greek washer woman (along with an exorbitant fee), and then dealt with the Hellenic postal services to send home some stuff to lighten our ever-expanding suitcases. That done, we went to the National Archaeological Museum where Simon (in his element) read every single description of every single thing in the Museum, while Karina sat on every single seat in the Museum to wait for him. 
In the afternoon we went to see more ancient ruins (part of the city of Ancient Athens and its cemetery) and then looked at the ruins of the Ancient Agora.Having had our fill of ruined buildings and broken marble statues, we sat in a cafe for while to people watch, before having dinner in another taverna. Since we had to be up early the next morning for our Classical Greece tour, we turned in for an early night.
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