We visited the main attraction in Athens, The Acropolis! The last time I was here was about 11 years ago and if you look at my background picture on this blog, it's me in front of The Acropolis (I was taking selfies before they had a name. Man, I'm too cool). It looks the same as I remember, except all of the reconstruction and scaffolding ruining every picture.
Magnificent!
That night (Friday), we partied Athens-style.
Super fun bars, clubs and people everywhere, but it was kind of a blur and we were so hungover we slept all day Saturday! We were supposed to go to The Archeological Museum, but didn't make it. Oh well, there's always next time, Athens!
We had a low-key date-night instead, doing dinner and a movie. I had moussaka one last time (sigh):
at this gorgeous tree-covered restaurant:
Then we saw The Man From U.N.C.L.E. at an outdoor rooftop theater right next to our hostel. Neither of us cared about the movie, we just wanted to go to an outdoor rooftop movie theater (although it turned out to be
action-packed and super fun!). Giant screen: check!
Full snack bar: check!
Perfect view of The Acropolis: double check!!
Throughout the movie, I would occasionally look to my left and see it there in all its glory and just think what a crazy-cool experience we were having. We did get rained out eventually, but it was still officially awesome!
We are now on our way to Thailand, via Jordan. We have an 8-hour layover in Amman, but can't leave the airport because we don't have visas. We will then fly to Bangkok and arrive on Monday at 3pm. We'll stay in Bangkok a few days and on October 1st we'll fly to the island of Phuket, where we booked an apartment in the city of Patong. We are so pumped!
Safe travels ✈️💺
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