My Eurotrip 2009: Day 6

The Parliament & Museums
Wednesday, May 6

The day started out with catching the bus to Athens with Despina at 8:30am, and Siena and I continued on to the metro. We got off at the Syntagma metro stop just in time to see the Changing of the Guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in front of the Greek Parliament building at 10am.
Afterwards, we got back on the metro and went up to the Omonia stop and walked to the National Archeological Museum. We spent some time there, getting lost among the ancient jewelry and sculptures.
Afterwards, we had lunch at Goody's, which is a fast food restaurant. Only half of the menu was in English, like "Premium *insert Greek work here*" or "Goody's Club *insert Greek word here* + Coca-Cola". Siena and I decided to stick with what we know, and ordered 2 club sandwiches and fries. But because we didn't know that fries came with the sandwiches, we ended up with a LOT of fries.
Then, we walked down the street called Oktovriou-Patision until it intersected with Ermou, which is a street packed with high-end (and some not-so-high-end) stores, shops, and cafes. There were 2 items I wanted to get in Europe while I'm here: a purse and a pair of shoes. I got lucky and found a pair of really cute shoes in one of the first stores we went into. But finding the right purse proved to be more difficult.

While we were eating our lunch, it started to rain. Luckily, we had Despina's little umbrella with us and we managed to stay mostly dry while going between shops. We called Despina somewhere along the way, and when we weren't having any luck finding purses on Ermou, she directed us toward another street where I found my new purse! They were closing the shop as we were looking, but they let us hang around long enough to make a decision.
We made our way back to Syntagma and back to Pallini.


After resting for a while at Despina's house, we got changed and went out to downtown Athens for a drink at a couple of her favorite bars. One of them was called Nixon and had a bobblehead of Former President Nixon hanging out on the DJ's table. The neighborhood where the bars were located had a great view of the Acropolis lit up at night. We took a taxi back to the metro station where we had parked the car, and got home around midnight.