The Temple of Posideon

After some serious shopping today I went along the coast to the temple of Posideon. There walking around the grounds was dinner, well no but it was a nice thought. The locals call these Kessa in Greek, some Americans thought it was partridge or Grouse. The coast road on the way out was lovely about a 2 hours by local bus.

The temple was built in 600 BC and was well fortified , but was captured by others 4 times before christ and was finally destroyed to it s present form in AD 60 ish.

Athens and rain

On the advise of the gent at the front desk, i left the Acropolis for tomorrow. instead i wondered around to the Ancient Olympic stadium. clean white marble and lots of rain. lots of markets to walk though on the way, then i wondered to the temple of Zeus, there is not a lot of signs not even in Greek with too much more info than, this is the temple of Zeus. but amazing to look at. E 12.oo will get you into the 5 other things around town including the Acropolis Yes i took lots of photos . but you will have to wait till tomorrow.

Then it continued to rain hard its about 55 or maybe 60 its all celcius it s 14. so i stopped at the restaurant , called the Taverna Plaka sat outside and had Calamari and the local fish , with some wine the local Retsina. The food was good the wine to be honest I can take of leave. i may try it again somewhere else. the gentleman at he next table was George who, thought his English was good, decided to hit on me and wanted to buy me coffee and more wine at the best hotel in town. I don't think i have ever spent that much on lunch in my life but sometimes this is good for a laugh. ( One always get caught once with these things.)
Fortunately it stopped raining and i could continue my way to browse the shops till i ran out of energy. the fruit here is so cheap, oranges 50 c a lb apples barely a 86 c a kg. there are orange trees that grow along side the pavement, that have what i thought was ripe oranges, thought i would try some, look like oranges but taste like lemons. there are lots of wonderful little stores that are in back alleys and narrow streets.
Anyway i am going to be cheap for dinner , since i spent so much on lunch.

The building next to the hostel is a pet store, specializing in birds so this morning on the way out I was greeted with the canaries budgies and finches singing to the morning.
more tomorrow hopefully with photos.

Athens flight.

It's difficult to find out how long it takes to get from the train station Kigs Cross to the airport, you never know with London, so one always alows lots of time. So therefore i had 2 hours to fill in a the airport. They have shops!!!! including one of my favorite clothes stores. they have a 70 % sale right now. i resisted, i dont need to carry to much arround right now.
the flight from Lutton ( North of London ) went over france and stuggart Germany. followed by the Austrian Alps, yes i had my camera and it was daylight . The sun was caught nicely on the alps. not sure when you 'll get to see those. the plane window were somewhat scratched , but I got a couple of good ones.
The Greek train system runs in greek and English fortuneatly. there seems to be quite a few people whose speak french.

I think its about time i repeated my disclosure about Spelling and Grammer.
No comments alowed on either, sometime I type when jet laged, like yesterday. Sometimes I remember to spell check, sometimes i dont. the keyboard has Greek characters just to make live interesting.

tomorrow I all attempt the Accropolis.