Sunday, September 3, 2023

Last night we went to bed at 10pm, I woke up at 2:45 and couldn’t fall back asleep because I was replaying my upcoming wedding speech in my head. Teresa finally got up at 7am and then I fell asleep and she woke me up at 9am. We had breakfast again in the same café, Merlina, a short block from our apt. This time we shared the envelope sandwich with lattes.

At 10am I ordered an Uber and the driver dropped us off at the Parliament Building. The changing of the guard started at 10:30

And continued until 11am. We followed the band and Evzones (Greek special infantry) to the side entrance to the National Gardens. We went in through the main entrance and walked fairly deep inside the park. We came out a side entrance, walked across the street and soon caught a taxi back to our apt.

Laura’s texted us that her flight was cancelled; her new flight with a layover in Portugal will get her in Athens about 10pm.

We finally found the store where Teresa bought her purse, Awatara, and she exchanged it for another plus an additional €85.

She checked out more stores on side streets and found a dress and purse for Laura (tomorrow is her birthday) and another dress for herself.

We had a nice lunch in an outside tavern named Karvatis.

We got slightly lost a few times but eventually figured out our way back.

Teresa took her time exchanging her purse at Awatari. Texting with Jeannie it seemed they were in the area. I gave her the name of our store and Jeannie and Jacob soon arrived. That was a cool reunion. They followed us to our “house” where we gave them the ship’s tour. They thought it was neat.

About 6:30 we had coffee at Melina café.

We walked down the street and stumbled on the Roman Agora ruins.

The Roman Agora was the ancient public square raised during the Roman period in Athens. It was one of the main meeting points in the city and it once housed the central market. The Roman Agora is found on the north side of the Acropolis, in the charming neighborhood of Plaka.

A little further we found a nice restaurant for dinner on the side of the hill called Klepsidra Café where Teresa had octopus and I had meatballs with rice in tomato sauce and we both loved our food. A complimentary bottle of water on our table as is customary here in Greece.

We even had an olive tree sitting on our table. 

 

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