A nice flight...snoozed all the way in readiness for some smashing sites....and sights....food....more food....followed by ice cream.....and some nice weather....
Finally got to the Acropolis...and...would you believe...my first telling off...not to be my last....by some over-zealous bureaucratic Greek type who referred to me as......a doll.....A DOLL...
They seem to have something against 'dolls' being photographed at their old buildings....but lets be honest...two things....their old buildings are in ruins....and quite frankly they've made a right balls up of many of their historic places by building a train line right by one, putting little cabins and diggers all over them…..I know they were late to the party when it came to looking after their history, but crikey they've made a right piece of toast out of it...
Anyway...stuff the Greeks....here I am photographed at the Acropolis....sod 'em...
They like to make a big deal out of one of those women....or caryatid.....holding up the building being 'stolen' by Lord Elgin....currently in the British Museum...the others the Greeks took away and replaced with fakes...and stuck them in the Acropolis Museum just down the road....and left a gap for when they get the other one back...which they wont....I mean....sure, they can have it, just after they've returned everything they've ever stolen from others and bunged in a Museum....
The Parthenon...
The Olympic Stadium....very impressive...
And this is the flame, when its lit of course, where from they light the Olympic torch before processing it around the world to the Olympic site....
I am number one....
Changing of the guard and all that funny four-stepping....their legs do the theatrical number four to represent 400 years of Ottoman rule...
Tower of Wind...I know a frog who resided there for some time....though hes still winy now...
