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Slept in today, plan was to be up at 8.30 but ended up being 10.30. Walked to the supermarket around the corner from our unit to get some food for lunch and breakfast! Went back to the unit, walked up the 6 levels of stairs, had breaky/ lunch and headed in to town. Was about a half hour walk to the Olympic stadium, and then further on to the temple of Olympian Zeus, acropolis and Panthenon. The views from the Acropolis really put Athens into perspective(able to see Athens 360 degrees). It was a stinker of a day reaching 35+ degrees. We found an Internet cafe across the road from Syntagma Square which was great for the air con. Syntagma Square is where all the riots had been recently with protesters camped out. It was very nerve racking to find a swat like van outside the cafe with police armed. We then were passed by an army of motorbikes possibly also protesting. Fair to say we were heading in the other direction quite quickly. It took us a good hour to walk back from Syntagma Square and so had a quick dinner at the Palmie Bistro. Had a traditional Greek mixed grill for dinner which was very filling.
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