Day 9 - 13 July Athens

 Today we woke up in Athens. And while we were keen to get out and explore a new city, our tour wasn't until the afternoon and it was going to be 40 degrees. So rather than exhaust ourselves by midday we decided to entertain ourselves around the ship.

It seemed like almost everyone else had gone ashore and we had the ship to ourselves. We started down in the spa again, because I really like the whole hot/cold thing.

Then we went up to the main pool, which was very humid and also deserted, and finally to the small plunge pool on the back deck.

After reading for a while we had a light lunch and then it was time for the tour. This drove round a couple of the sights - the harbour district of Piraeus, a few public buildings and the old marble stadium.

Then we were droopped off at the National Archeological Museum. This was very well presented and in many ways similar to yesterday's museum in Crete - it had a lot of Cycladic artifacts and then moved on to the Hellenic sculptures and pottery. Very good, but we are approaching our museum limit. And the guide tended to drone on, so we left her early on and ended up in the cafe, having a drink and the largest baklava I've ever seen.
We eventually got back to the ship about 6pm and the evening followed as predicted - reading, dinner and so on.


Location: Akti Miaouli 10, Pireas 185 38, Greece

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