Decided to do Athens by ourselves - took the free shuttle bus to the port entrance and then purchased public bus tickets for the X80 bus to Athens from right outside the port which cost €4.50 and was a nice easy journey of less than 20 minutes. Whilst reading a map, picked up at the tourist office in the port, suddenly found myself in charge or organising the whole bus trip as no one else knew where they were going. Now my husband David would find this amusing as I don't know how to hold a map never mind read one. However as usual the internet is my friend and having paid for eurotraveller on my phone had full use of the internet so followed the journey on google maps. I knew that we would like to see the Acropolis and wander in the district of Plaka as my daughter, Rebecca, had visited last year and gave recommendations. As we got closer I asked the bus driver to shout out when we got to the stop for the Acropolis and he did this, getting off he bus to point the way and show us the return bus stop.
A short walk later we were at the entrance to the Acropolis. We didn't go in as it would be too much for mum and headed off to the Plaka district. A lovely wander along the old town and headed up to the Parliamentary area - Syntagma Square, where the marches and protests during the Greek crisis a few years ago were held. Heading back to Plaka had a lovely lunch followed by an ice cream and return bus to the port. We waited about half an hour for the bus but the return journey took about 12 minutes. You could also use the Metro for convenience but believe that was further away from the port.
That evening we were surprised to receive some Canapés delivered to the cabin - a nice touch and I believe compliments of an officer who is related to my friend and colleague Julie.
We met a new couple at dinner tonight who were a Scottish couple, fairly quiet but very nice. The other couple didn't come to dinner tonight as they had said they were trying alternative dining.
The show tonight was The Ivories, a couple of guys who were both good singers and entertaining.
A couple of sequence dances later and an early night.
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