Greece: Churches, Cemeteries and Random sites around Athens...

So rather than creating a huge long blog post with the photos of Athens I figured I would break them up into sections. There was Random Photos from Athens, Olymic Stadium and Changing of the Gaurd, soon there will be the post from the Acropolis, but I had a bunch of pictures from random sites around Athens that I feel are must see's if you do come to Athens for a couple days. So I grouped them appropriately.

Enjoy!

This first statue is a lesser known statue but is interesting. It is made from a bunch of broken pieces of glass. It is relatively near Lycabettus so we headed here then we were going to hike up Lycabettus Hill; however it took us a little longer to get downtown due to tram works (imagine that) so we ended up saving the hill for another day when we had more time...







If you walk around Athens especially around the Plaka (central shopping) area - you will eventually run into one of the MANY old churches that roads have been built around. Here are a few pictures of a couple different ones we happened upon.







Athens also has a huge cemetery and whenever Josh and I travel we love walking through cemeteries. I know it sounds weird, but it is really interesting to see how different cultures view death and set up cemeteries. Unfortunately we didn't spend too much time here, we had been walking around all day and so I was pretty worn out, we said we would come back, but unfortunately ran out of time.

Here are a couple monuments that we saw here. Can you believe these are at a cemetery?











Here are a few pictures of different historical sites that you find around Athens.

First up - Temple of Zeus Athens









View of the Acropolis from the Temple of Zeus



An ancient love seat that Josh found – Josh made me include this - oh the things I do for love :)



Hadrian's Arch which leads into the Temple of Zeus - this view is looking back at the Acropolis.



An old theater near the Acropolis





The Ancient Agora, one place (other than the Acropolis) I really wanted to go see, fortunately the day before we left we were able to pop in for a look.





And this is why I wanted to visit this site... I wanted this picture (yep I am a dork :)

Greece: Athens - Olympic Stadium and Changing of the Guard

So, although I have blogged previously about both the changing of the guards and a soccer match at the olympic stadium here are a few pictures that didn't make those last posts.

While we were there as many of you know there was some unrest. One night when we went down to see the changing of the guard, there was a protest that was taking place. I snapped this photo, just before I got yelled at by one of the police men.