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It is very hot in Athens, in fact 'very' would be an understatement, a massive one. the wee weather card that our hotel gives us each night for today said it was going to be 37 degrees today and it sure felt like it!!!

We made the trek up the shady side of the streets to the National Archelogical Museum this morning. There are heaps of ancient greek sculpture and vases which are pretty cool they are both organised by time so it was interesting to see the progressions in style. well i thought it was, Jeremy was a little tired, after a while one vase looks like another and there is a limit to how many statues of poorly endowed naked marble men one can look at!!!

The actual highlight of the museum is the finds from the grave circles at Myacane where we visited a few days ago. There are loads of things made from gold including the Mask of Agamemnon. Weapons and jewelwery and more vases and loads of other cool stuff was found. i think it was interesting cos we had just been to the site so it tied it all together.

On the way back, even with my portable shade (my umbrella, not just for rain) it was massivly hot so we poped into a few airconditioned shops and had our lunch in the shade of a park by Syntagma Square. The thing with walking down the street is that its not just the heat, its the mad traffic, think five lanes of speedy cars plus scooters ignoring all possible road rules including the ones about pedestrian areas, plus the people everywhere and people trying to sell you stuff. Its all a bit overwhelming so its quite a releif to get back to our room and turn on the air con in the quiet!!!!

We had some relaxing drinks in the bar downstairs and wrote some postcards (if we don't have your address and you want one, tell us your addy) before waiting till the cool of the day to venture out again. We visited the Roman Agora and had one last stroll through the Plaka (much more pedestrian, tho still cars and scooters everywhere) and a souvilakia for dinner. We say good bye to Athens in the morning and are off on the next adventure.