The ancient monuments of Athens are dramatic and spectacular, huge and wonderful. You have to wonder how Greeks three thousand years ago did all this with no power tools, no computers, and not a lot of what we think of as science. They were some impressive dudes.
The city of Athens, while old, doesn't have the same "other" feeling that you get in Istanbul and Alexandria. There is considerably more commitment to maintenance here, for example. This city feels European, those do not. Greek food is nice, too. I've heard that before and now I've experienced it.
Your humble scribe has come down with a cold and will be taking it easy until we fly out tomorrow. For a change, I will have a chance to infect everybody on the plane instead of being on the receiving end. Hack, cough, sniffle.
Athens is a 10 hours time difference from the West Coast of the U.S. Actually it is 10 hours later so I'm writing this at 4 p.m. and in CA it is 6 a.m. of the same day, namely Thursday. The other DrC has a theory that for every hour of time difference, it takes another day to get over jet lag. If she's right, it will take us 10 days to recuperate - that's dreary.
