AThens

Th sky is blue and it is heating up to be warm again today. We have a tour booked this afternoon so we caught a little tourist train around the city to check out the city sites and the harbour.You  can see from the photos just how clear the sky was today.

Our tour went  to the sites around Athens and up to the buildings of theAcropolis. This consists of the Parthenon, The Propylaea, the Temple of the Winged Victory (Temple of Athena Niki) and the Erechtheion . Each of these buildings was built 4 to 5 hundred years prior the birth of Christ. My goodness everything is so very old. It is very awe inspiring.
 By the time we climbed up to the top it was 36 deg and very warm. There was hardly any trees to shelter under and I thought our poor guide was going to expire! She huffed and puffed her way up the hill.
We were told that in its hey day 11000 people worked on building this each and every day. The guide assured us they were not slaves but paid to work carrying lumps of stone up this big hill. The acropolis was built up here because there was a water supply believe it or not!

On the day we visited there were people getting the amphitheatre ready for an evening concert which is a familiar occurance during the summer months.