On Monday June 4th, we took a taxi to the airport and caught a short (35 minutes in the air) Olympic flight to Athens. We took the Metro into town and, following the directions sent to us by Rick Steves Tours, walked a few blocks to our hotel, the Acropolis Select. On the way, Mary Joy was surprised to see, in a restaurant window, a whole lamb turning on a spit.
For lunch, we relied on recommendations from TripAdvisor and a YouTube foodie and went to a nearby restaurant, Dio Dekares i Oka. There we were given a tour of the day's specials, sitting in a row of pans, from which we chose. TripAdvisor and YouTube were right.
At 6:00 we met our tourmates and guide, a young Athenian named Danae, for our Rick Steves "Athens and the Heart of Greece in 14 Days" tour. There were 22 of us in all: 17 women and 5 men, all American. Eleven (six from California alone) were from the West; five from the Northeast; four from the Midwest; two from the Southeast. I would guess that four were older than 70 and three were younger than 40, so the age range skewed a lot lower than our Overseas Adventure Travel tours..
After introducing ourselves and getting the preliminary information out of the way, we all walked up the hill to a restaurant (I forget its name), where we had an okay meal, in view of the Acropolis, while the standard Greek bouzouki-guitar duo (they were very good) played, sometimes along with a female vocalist.
For lunch, we relied on recommendations from TripAdvisor and a YouTube foodie and went to a nearby restaurant, Dio Dekares i Oka. There we were given a tour of the day's specials, sitting in a row of pans, from which we chose. TripAdvisor and YouTube were right.
At 6:00 we met our tourmates and guide, a young Athenian named Danae, for our Rick Steves "Athens and the Heart of Greece in 14 Days" tour. There were 22 of us in all: 17 women and 5 men, all American. Eleven (six from California alone) were from the West; five from the Northeast; four from the Midwest; two from the Southeast. I would guess that four were older than 70 and three were younger than 40, so the age range skewed a lot lower than our Overseas Adventure Travel tours..
After introducing ourselves and getting the preliminary information out of the way, we all walked up the hill to a restaurant (I forget its name), where we had an okay meal, in view of the Acropolis, while the standard Greek bouzouki-guitar duo (they were very good) played, sometimes along with a female vocalist.
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