Day Four - Olympeion and Panathanaic Stadium

Yesterday ended with us eating carbonara at 'world famous' greek taverna that was two houses away. Expensive but filling <3 The place was called Byzantino Vizantino and was really nice. We ended up spending a little over our normal meal budget but it was totally worth it. The restaurant near the hotel tried to bully us to a table, something that there was no way that I was going to do... I mean, come on, no matter how charming Maximus was the first night in trying to get us to eat there, we don't need virtually marching to a cash point and being told to sit down and he'll be right with us when we've been consistently saying 'no thank you' to him...

We got up fairly late this morning and ate breakfast at a crepery place. It was the most epic bacon butty I've ever had. Feta cheese, tomato, green peppers and black olives... The Italian one promptly scraped everything off hers and just ate the bacon. What a waste of 6 euros...

We then went to the Temple of Olympian Zeus. It's mostly a ruin, but there are lots of daisies. There are lots of daisies and apple grass around temples I've noticed. Delphi was the same. This has led us to the conclusion that the Greek gods had a thing for them. To be honest, I can believe that of Apollo. He was probably a bit of a daisy lover. As well as Hyacinths. Okay, geeky classics joke. Moving on...

There was a protest today going on outside the temple. Don't know what it was about but I took a picture. The roads were closed. In any case, it just made our journey to the Panathenaic Stadium quicker as we walked along a closed road. Of course, while we were at the Panathenaic Stadium, the roads reopened and we got trapped in an island of traffic with protest shouting and drumming happening in the background. Talk about deafening.

Panathenaic stadium looks like it should be impressive, but seeing as you can't get into it and can only look at it from the outside, it is a moment where you go "Wow" then "Now what". We played cards in front of it for ten minutes and then we went back to the hostel, where I had an ice cream and typed this up.