It takes a bit long to post pictures so since we'll be home tomorrow we'll just post the pictures of italy and greece later as well as other pictures from our trip.
Overall, we really enjoyed the historical feel of Athens. We visted the Acropolis in the 100F+ weather and had to drink five 1.5L bottles of water each day, but it was still amazing to see all the architecture, artistry and history behind the city on top of the hill. We quickly learned that Athens has hills EVERYWHERE. We're confident that after 3 weeks of walking for hours and hours each day we have some pretty fit legs - or so we hope!!!
While in Athens we visted the Acropolis museum and the National Archeological museum, which we think are some of the best museums we've been to. The Archeological museum had the coolest display of pottery, jewelry and all things random and neat from the ancient greek societies. You could go to Athens just to go to that museum.
The other best thing about Athens and Greece was the amazing tans that we got....well we think they are pretty amazing because we were WHITE before. In fact, after we layed out on the beach for a couple of days people stopped speaking to us in English and a few people thought Dan was greek (they weren't very observant...but still). We tanned (and got sunburned each time) on the 'cruise' to Greece, on the beach of Aegina Island and on the Poseidon Coast just outside of Athens.
We would like to possible go back to Greece someday and see more of the country, we only saw such a small area. It really would take a few weeks to see the most important sites in the country.
Yesterday, we spent the whole day traveling to London. Our hostel here is decent, although there are a lot of renovations being done. Last night we went and saw Harry Potter. On the way to the theatre we saw the premiere opening of UK Inglorious Bastards. All the actors and big shots were walking down the red carpet. We tried to squint and see if we could see Brad Pitt, but we couldn't and realized we'd rather go see Harry Potter instead. We'll hold our opinion of it....
London is quite expensive, especially the transportation, so we brillantly (or not so - our feet our now killing us!) decided to walk around the city today. But all the museums in the city are free, so we felt extra great about having such a cheap cheap day! (If you haven't noticed....we are all about being cheap, often to our detriment...but we've almost learned our lesson on this trip!)
We saw the National Portrait Gallery, which was by far one of the best museums we've seen. Dan loved looking at all the new portrait work...we skipped over much of the older victorian era paintings of random royalty, and men straddling horses with big hats and bigger egos. We've really had enough....
We then headed to the British Museum aka "the museum of the things the Brits have stolen from other cultures." They had a lot of cool things from the Acropolis that were missing when we went to the Acropolis Museum, so it was neat to see those. We saw the Rosetta Stone, mummies and and all the other cool things from every culture you can imagine. I'm pretty sure we've seen every random nicknack from all the major cultures.
So now we've written way too much....we just wanted to share the interesting things we've seen.
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