S/V Good Morning Vietnam: September 2019

When you are kinda sorta retired, is it called a vacation when you travel? A friend asked me that question and I'm not sure of the answer. But anyway, we've been on a trip for the last three weeks and I'm going to call it a vacation. There are three distinct parts of our trip so I'll post them separately.

Part One - Athens, Greece with our friends Jay and Carol.

We met up with Jay and Carol at a VRBO in Athens on Tuesday, September 3. We spent the next three days touring Athens and Corinth. In a word, wow! We pretty much liked everything about Athens. We liked the city, the people, the sights and the food. Oh boy, did we ever like the food!

Besides the various historic sites we visited, we had an olive oil tasting (Greece makes the best olive oil. Just ask a Greek if you don't believe me), we visited a winery and had a tasting there (ended up leaving with 14 bottles of Greek wine) and had an excellent meal at a place in the country you would never find if a local didn't take you there. We had been told Greeks like to eat meat. They do and so did we.

Now for some pictures...

Temple of Olympian Zeus

Acropolis as seen from Temple of Zeus

Jay and Carol at Temple of Zeus

Panathenaic Stadium has hosted several Olympics. More importantly, the stadium is where the Olympic flame starts on its journey to the nation hosting that year’s athletic contests. The current structure was restored in the 19th century for the first modern version of the Olympics Games after centuries of disuse. Panathenaic Stadium seats 50,000 spectators and is the largest stadium in the world made entirely of marble.