OK, this one doesn't look nice, but the other pictures I took that night weren't that much better… In fact, we took the plane round 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and 3 hours later, we landed in Athens. It was 6 o'clock, but we had to adapt to the local time, which was 7 o'clock. We got our luggage back, then we took a special bus to go to the centre of Athens, round 20 kilometers further.
When you get outside of the airport, you're stunned… by pollution. The air is warm and the toxic gas come to your nose, giving you a peculiar feeling. The bus couldn't get out of the parking lot, due to a problem with the automatic barriers… Right.
Afterwards, we installed in the hotel, rooms for three, perfect accomodation. Then we went for a short walk in Athens, and we walked up to a forum, just down the Acropolis — that's what you can see on the picture.
Of course, when we got back to our rooms at the hotel, we couldn't sleep and we played cards up to 1 o'clock, even if our teachers told us to go to sleep at midnight. But it was great fun to break the rules. It's a school trip, after all!
On our first day in Greece, we got to visit the well-known Parthenon and the Acropolis. A huge heap of rocks and old stuff being rebuilded quite slowly. While climbing, we saw this old Greek (!) theatre which got renovated a couple of years ago, so that old plays could be played as it was meant to back in that time. The sound quality is exceptional, as they say.
We continued our way up to the top of the Acropolis, and we finally passed though remains of an impressive gate to enter a open-air (obviously) place at the feet of the Temple, which you can see below (I think that, one year later, it didn't change much), as well as the beautiful carven Caryatids by Phidias (if I remember it well).
