We had an early morning flight into Athens. 'Auntie A' was gracious enough to meet us at the airport (to take our luggage) and drop us off near the metro to get to the meeting point for our walking tour.

We had signed up for a food tasting walking tour, and a side trip out to Cape Sounion. WARNING: We walked through the meat market and fish market...graphic pictures follow. (be thankful you're not smelling the smells while looking at the photos!)

Lucky for us, Starbucks was right next door to the meeting place for the walking tour, and we were 15 minutes early! After checking in with the guide, we grabbed our Mocha Frappuccino and several bags of coffee beans (and a Greece coffee mug!) We were a little too excited after stumbling upon this find!

lovely orange trees all over Athens

(and several options for bathroom breaks during the tour)

Loukoumades: One of the Greek food items on our food walking tour. Lighter than a donut, and soaked in honey

Fresh rabbit. You can tell it is fresh, because the tails are still on!!

Animal guts

A cow head

fresh seafood

sardines

crabs

fresh veggies

snails, anyone?

check out the size of these cinnamon sticks!!

Athens is covered in graffiti

more food on the tour:

Spanakopita - cheese and spinach pie

More graffiti

Last stop - Gyros! Yum!

What the heck?? A Royal Enfield bike in Athens!!

Another surprise!! After the walking tour, we were just roaming around and bumped into this gem!

Picked up T-shirts for the grandkids, and a pin for Josh.

After we poked around a bit, we took a taxi to Auntie A's house. The taxi dropped us off at the wrong house, and it took us a bit to realize it - we had never been there before! After introducing ourselves to the dog, we rested up a bit and then headed out to Cape Sounion to see the Temple of Poseidon!

Cape Sounion is noted as the site of ruins of an ancient Greek temple of Poseidon, the god of the sea in classical mythology. The remains are perched on the headland, surrounded on three sides by the sea.

Our goal was to visit the temple and watch the sunset at a romantic (as romantic as it gets with a 2 year old) dinner near the temple. Unfortunately, we arrived 10 minutes before the sunset, and the site closed at sunset. We still had to pay the full 4 euro entrance fee. We ran around and snapped a bunch of photos in the freezing wind, jumped back into the car, and headed to an empty 'tourist trap' restaurant...where our guide obviously received compensation. The sea bass was 77 euros...and it was one of the items he recommended to us. We ordered something much less expensive and got the heck out of there. Back to A's house for a nice relaxing evening chatting and catching up.