17 September - Athens, Greece.

After a relaxing day at sea, we arrived early this morning, in Athens the capital of Greece. After a leisurely breakfast we made our way to the ocean terminal to find a taxi and driver that could take us to the key sites in this incredible city. It didn’t take long for Lefteris to offer us his special tour of 4 to 5 hours for only 30 Euro each - pretty good value. Lefty spoke pretty good English and in no time we were being shown some incredible harbour side views full of multimillion dollar yachts which looked ideal for exploring the Greek islands in style. 

The site on top of our list was of course the Acropolis, a very high plateau which houses many of the ruins of the ancient Greek temples located here including of course the world famous Parthenon. We had 90 minutes to explore this absolutely incredible area which involves a great deal of climbing and clambering over rocks which have housed these wonderful buildings for the past few thousand years.

As well as the Acropolis we also visited the Temple of Zeus, the site of the original Olympic Stadium and also watched the changing of the guards outside the Presidential palace.

Altogether a great tour, and by 2:30 we were back on the Constellation ready for lunch.

Tomorrow we arrive in Kusadasi and here we have a tour booked to the ancient ruins of Ephesus.