JA TRAVEL BLOG

The second day in Athens is still rather slow to start with. Decided to take the City Hop On-Off bus tour (18€ each) and just spent the whole day exploring the Athens itself. Note thr ticket can be used for 24 hrs, i.e. 2 days.

Saw the original Olympic stadium, the Panathinaikon, Makes u wanna go running!

The flea market sells everything except human beings!! All around Ermou Street near Monastiraki Station.

While there are many local sellers, there are also as many “illegal” vendors. Every now & then u see them running cos the cops are coming after them. Within a minute, these guys will be back at the same location. Cat & mouse game occurs throughout the day. Tried to catch them on video but the things just happen too fast. Dang!!

Checked out Omonia Square where they had lots of immigrants & all the “colourful” people of Athens. The crowd do look kinda shady but the police were everywhere so it makes u feel safe.

Had lunch at an Kurdish Iranian “coffeeshop. The mutton ribs was mighty tasty… makes the body feel a lot warmer after that.

Instead of Angsana tree or rain tree, the streets are lined with orange trees. No one is interested in them except us. J

Night was spent all around Plaka. As it was a Sunday, not many shops are open except the restaurants. Went searchin for a pub with live music but there was none. A restaurant owner told us that the city sort of conserve the heritage of the ancient city by not allowing live rock, jazz or any other music except traditional in the heritage area. Pretty cool. Checked out the local hip areas but still the music not fantastic. Its just lots of people especially young adults talkin, playing board games, & drinking.

Couldn’t help but notice lots of motorbikers & cyclist in Athens that moves around very fast.

Can’t load in too many pics cos the internet sometimes got no connection or is reaaaaallly slow.

Okay la …. We are tired too.

Told ourselves that we’ll go running tomorrow morning. We’ll see how that’s gonna happen.

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