Jun 4, 2006 Reaching Greece

hihi~, haven't updated blog for a long time :D ...Last week I've been to Greece, visiting Acropolis, feeling the atmosphere of Myth, the origin of Olympics and the volcanic islands, Santorini, the land of white and blue.


Around 35 degree celcius in Athens, I arrived this city wearing 2 T shirts, 2 pair of socks with a rather thick jacket, have to take off almost everything. Soooo hot...phuuuew.. First, we had to find an accommodation. Our lives were depending on a little book, lonely planet. We got to the centre by Metro, quite fast and convenient. Walking for a while to reach a youth hostel. We leaved our luggages and got ready to go out! again. This night we stayed near the centre of Athens. The city has a lot of hills, we always walk up and down and up and down again. There're many orange trees along the street everywhere. The shops open till very late and we can find the street food everywhere. Although, there're lot of traffic but I like this kind lifestyle, making me feel like home, like when I was in Thailand. ... First night we walked around shopping area, Syntagma and Plaka which is full of souvenir shops and restaurants.

Our first meals here, ofcourse gyros and souvaki pita. This food are selling everywhere, making from pork or chicken or lamb inside and eat with pita bread and vegetable. They're quite nice. We walk around. The street's quite crowded, maybe it's saturday night. Greek people really like to enjoy nightlife. There's so much people outside at night. After walking for a while, we're hungry again, we finished the first night in a creperia. My crepe with ham cheese and mushroom is quite delicious. And then we catch the cab back to our hostel. The taxi here is not so expensive comparing to the other places in Europe, however for me, it's still expensive anyway.

Next day, we went to monasteraki market, it's a flea market open only on sunday morning. Looking around for a while. After that we went to the Acropolis, the most important creation of the ancient Greek architecture and the splendid temples.

The Parthenon, the symbol of perfection of the golden age of Greek. This temple was dedicated to the goddess Athena, the Pathoness of Athens. We walked around, seeing the Propylaea, the monumental gate, the temple of wingless victory (Nike). Actually, I don't know much about the history of greek, stuffs like this but when I have seen the great construction made by people since many thousands years ago in the ancient time, I can feel how great of the human civilisation and how much endeavour of them. I also wonder ..how's our earth's gonna be in the next thousand year in the future! how life is it...