stereotypical

You may be noticing that I'm blogging a lot. I'm taking advantage of the fact that this hostel has free internet! I won't always be so lucky.

Today was my day of seeing the stereotypical stuff. I did the Acropolis and the other things included in its ticket. I did take lots of pictures. (Matthew... milk van? what?) One of the sites, the theatre of Dionysus, I found completely by accident while lost. I had resigned myself to the fact that I wouldn't be able to find it. I was very glad I did! Many of the seats are still in place, as is the main stage. The Ancient Agora was also very interesting - probably my favourite. Roman Agora not so much - since you've already paid for it, it's alright, but I wouldn't go if I had to pay for it on its own.

On being lost - have resigned myself to the fact that streets in Athens make no sense. I had a Winnie the Pooh -like moment. There's a scene in the movie where Rabbit, Pooh, and Piglet are lost in the woods, and the keep only being able to find this pit. Pooh recommends that if they look for the pit, they might find home. The Acropolis was kind of like that for me today. It's very easy to get turned around here, and it seemed like everything led back to it.

Accessibility-wise, I give my day a 2.5 out of 5. The Acropolis itself had signs for a non-stair entrance, but all that depends on how you feel about steep, slippery marble. The other sites were alright. Ancient Agora was fairly up and down, the Temple of Zeus was flat, etc. I was originally thinking a rating of 3, but the streets killed it. "Street" is a very loose term - narrow, steep alley with occasional stairs? So when you mix that with the illogicality (is that a word?) of their road systems, could make for some interesting times.

public transportation: things that look like buses on street car lines. Things that look like buses that actually are buses. things that look like subway on street car lines. an actual subway.

Tomorrow I'm going to go to the Archeological museum.