5th day : non productive visit

As we were quite tired yesterday, we started our day today a bit later. We headed to visit Angora place first. The best part was it was again free of charge, so we did not have to spend money on entrance fee. We showed the tickets we had from our last visit to Acropolis, the she stamped today's date on them. We walked around those merely nothing rocky area and learned from the exhibition. All altars were not there anymore, the statues were left without heads, the office building and temples were seen as flat rocky area. As we both are engineer and doctor to be, the artifacts left were meanigless to us. There were a few works still running at some parts of Angora. The archelologists seemed to be digging and searching for more hidden artifacts in the soil. The sad part we found was about 12 gods altar that had turned into electric railways. I know they have so much of the historical areas and rocks, but... Hurm... Nevermind, it is none of my business.

We planned to go to pireaus tour, i.e blue route using the bus tour. But, as soon as we arrived to the main terminal, we were quite lost as we did not know what to do there. The area where the bus stopped had nothing except the big cruises. So, we decided to stop at the next stop, i.e Lion gate. Also, there was nothing except stupid thin lion statue in the middle of an open restaurant.

The next bus came to fetch us to the next stops. Along the way, we could view Marina Zea where all boats were docked. The view was beautiful but the bus did not really stop at the bay. We had to walk further if we wanted to go the beach. Who wants that, right? Okay, maybe others could walk there, but not us. We prefered to stay on the bus and waited for Planetarium stop.

Again, Planetarium stop dissapointed us. The show and the exhibition could only be opened after 5.30pm. The receptionist gave us an English guide. From there, we learned that it is only opened to general public during the weekend and school groups during weekdays. Nonsense! I guess they just want to save more money on utilities. In that way, they don't have to pay higher electricity bills. Lol.

Left with no plan, we went to The New Acropolis Museum to see more artifacts from past history. The entrance fee is free but we are not allowed to take any photos as it may affect the artistic marble from the Parthenon. The museum looks modern and the exhibition is just about marbles and soil, ranging from vases and statues. We learned about how The Goddess of City, Aethina saved the city from the Eartquakes Giants. I know this sound ridiculous but that was their belief. We watched a show about the architecture of Parthenon. It told us about its symmetrical design, together with the top decorative statues. Zeus and Aethina were in the middle, followed by the ancestors and animals.

We had our dinner at Monesteraki area. We ordered Greek salad, and seafood platter with ham and cheese roll. Oh my God, we did not know that it was ham, so we ate some bits. When we tasted the meat, we put it aside and finishe the rest. The salad and seafood were fresh, tasty and juicy. Sweet flesh of squids and octopus really made our day.

We bought some souvenirs along the way to The New Acropolis Museum and Monesteraki. We managed to find a reasonable average price for fridge magnets and postcards. We just know about a flea market at Monesteraki. So we planned to go there again tomorrow just to buy pretty cheap strawberries and other fruits. Can you imagine having a kilogram of starwberries or cherries for a euro? I'm so not going to let it go.