Last day (night, really) in Athens

We never got an opportunity to post about our last day in Greece.

We headed to the Athens Flea Market in Montrasiri to buy souvenirs. We didn't buy much, but the Flea Market was HUGE. It was blocks and blocks of various stores; souvenir chotchkis, cheap clothing, cheap beads and jewelry, antiques and antique furniture, and more souvenirs.

We headed back to our hotel via Ermou Street, where all of the designers had their stores. Our guidebook said that Ermou had the highest concentration of shoes per block than any other city in the wold. All of the stores seemed the same after a while, although we ducked into Zara to escape the heat in their air conditioning, and I ended up buying a shirt.

Finally, around 3pm, we were unable to handle not only shopping, but the heat any longer. We read in the English version of Greece's newspaper that the temperature had been 99 degrees Farenheit! Although there were museums and gardens we still wanted to see, we just couldn't take the heat and decided to head back to our hotel. Even restaurants and tavernas were sweltering in the summer sun... it seems like air conditioning is too much of a luxury in Athens to actually be used enough to cool you off.

We decided to have a siesta like the Athenians do, and ventured back outside at 10pm. At that point, the Athenians were just starting to go out for dinner that night. We ate dinner and walked around another neighborhood in Athens called Psiri. Psiri is supposedly the bohemian artsy area of Athens. We thought a lot of people were out when we went to Plaka the other night, but Psiri was out of control! Every seat at almost every taverna was filled with people.

After another delicious dinner, we went for a drink at a bar nearby, then headed back to the hotel. It was a rather unaventful ending to our honeymoon, but we had almost too much fun watching Japanese shows on our hotel TV beore falling asleep.