If in Athens, you have to visit the Acropolis and Parthenon. Avoiding selfie sticks and people taking pictures of people taking pictures with selfie sticks, we joined the crowds above the city. It really is an impressive site and it is good to see UNESCO funding being put to good use to stabilise and restore it.
We descended the hill back to the main city level and strolled along the beautiful pedestrian boulevard to the Temple of Zeus and Hadrian's gate. The latter built in honour of the Emperor who had finally finished the project just a couple of hundred years late.
Our final stop of the morning was the Olympic stadium used in pre-history but re-built for the first games of the modern Olympiad. It is a striking all marble structure with built in thrones. Today it was being used by a school group for their own mini-Olympics.
having completed our own 400 metres in a little over 45 minutes we stood atop the podium and waited for our medal ceremony.
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