The big balkan cycle adventure

Yesterday evening I discovered a new neighbourhood in Athens, full of hip bars and  smaller restaurants. A lot of local people, slightly less touristically. I had a simple dinner of salad, squid and a beer. Around 22.00 I was back in my hotel room and fell rather fast asleep to wake up the next day around 8.15, which was later then usual. My plan was to visit a couple musea, do some errands, discover the city and have dinner with an old working-friend George in the evening.When I left the hotel the streets where much busier then the days before during the Easter weekend. A lot of cars and people in the street and all the shops open. My hotel is near Athens central market, a covered market where mainly fish, meat and vegetables are sold. I made some small talk with the vendors and tasted a sort of mature feta cheese which was really great.  Prices are non-comparable to Belgium Lamb : 6 Euro / kilo , most fish around 5 euro,…great place the central market.  After my central...

Today I spend most of the day visiting the classic attractions of Athens. The Acropolis, the Roman Agora, the Ancient Agora, Hadrian’s library,….In addition I visited the the more then fantastic Acropolis museum.  I started this morning at 8.00 visiting the Acropolis and ended my visiting tour some 8 hours later, a great lunch of mussels included. I had never visited the Acropolis before and can only recommend to do so. I also found the Ancient Agora very interesting. Most tourists are to be found on the Acropolis, the other classic sites clearly attract much less people. The Acropolis museum queue was also quite busy, but nothing an online ticket can not manage.  The modern museum has a huge collection on artifacts , statues , objects related to history of the Acropolis which is cleverly presented. Definitely a must visit when in Athens. I’m not the only tourist in the city. Even on a Monday in April Athens is full with tourists. Plaka (the old/touristic part of Athens) was p...