The tram only costs one euro.
Poseidon gets angry if you spend too much time at the Temple of Hephaestus, and he will mess up your sand castle.
Most small stores/restaurants will only accept cash.
The Agora (Greek: Ἀγορά, Agorá) was an open "place of assembly" in ancient Greek city-states. Early in Greek history (900s–700s BC), free-born male land-owners who were citizens would gather in the Agora for military duty or to hear statements of the ruling king or council. Later, the Agora also served as a marketplace where merchants kept stalls or shops to sell their goods amid colonnades. (Wikipedia)
Today we visited the Agora and the Agora museum which houses all the artifacts found there.
Coins from Agora
Remnants of the Middle Stoa
The group with the Acropolis in the background. Sorry Bella, I didn't realize I was almost blocking you!
The Temple of Hephaeastus in the Agora is almost whole.
Jewelry from a disturbed chamber tomb, 14th century BC
An ivory crossbar from a sword hilt. Possibly Hellenistic.
Golden jewelry from the Roman period.
A bronze Spartan shield. Loot from the Battle of Pylos, 425 BC
These were gold adornments taken from a funerary shroud.
Jewelry.
We then went to Karameikos, which was the burial site for ancient Athens, and is well known for the type of clay found there that's used in certain pottery. It was nice because there was an area above it where you can see the entire site, and so we sat in the shade and had a discussion while overlooking it.
Later in the day, since we were done with 'class' at about noon, a bunch of us went down to the beach. We took the tram for one euro, and the trip lasted for about 40 minutes. The whole tram was entirely too crowded, and I kept my backpack wedged between my feet so that gypsies and thieves couldn't steal anything. The beach was amazing! There were no waves, because the Mediterranean Sea doesn't have a tide. It was hot enough that the water didn't seem too cold, so we spent a lot of time in the water. The beach was really crowded, with both locals and tourists like us. The gypsies walking up and down the beach hawking their crap targeted us, and by the end of the day when they came over I almost lost my cool by screaming NO at them. Other than that and seeing a few too many boobs the beach day was great!
We were building a sand castle, with a beautiful reinforced retaining wall for the moat...
When we were rudely interrupted by the sea.
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