Plaka - Athens

Wow!!! I met a couple here from Philadelphia - Dalinda (?) and Paul - they are sooooo funny! We went into Athens, an area called Plaka, for some ice cream, shopping and walking. It was a beautiful night. The moon, the stars and for a little ambiance, the Acropolis - WOW!!! So majestic - sitting up on top of the mountain lighting the sky like no other star up there :) Absolutely beautiful. It's one thing to be sitting at a cafe and you have the Empire State building as a back drop but it's an entirely different experience to watch the Acropolis and the Parthenon radiate beauty that began in 450 BC. A timeline unfathomable to me, unconceptual but REAL, very very real.

I ate the most amazing gelato tonight at a place called Ice Grill. YUMMY!!! But something very discouraging was the graffiti - so much of it everywhere. It made me sad that humans deface this archaic town with spray paint and no one removes it :(

Another thing we noticed they have a huge stray cat and dog population here. Not the like the states though - these are animals are FAT like me :) They are greek strays by definition.

I am back at the hotel now. It is 11:47 pm here and I am ready to hit the hay.

I will be getting up at 9 am to eat breakfast and go down the beach - not for swimming - just my own viewing pleasure.

Good night all!