Friday 11 April

Our wake up call came at 2:00 (am)!! , and by 3:00 we were on our way to Tel Aviv. It took about 2 hrs to get through all the security screening and even then they didn't x-ray our bags. We took off at 7:15 and landed in Athens at 9:30. We were all very impressed with the city - excellent freeway, lots of street and balcony plantings,  no rubbish, but still some pretty crazy driving.
We are very close to the Acropolis,  which is far higher than I expected. We thought about going to the new museum but decided that we have seen enough archeology for the moment.  Instead we just looked through the floor outside to see their remains then caught a taxi to the bottom of the cable train up Lycabettus Hill which is in the middle of the city. It has amazing views 360º. Then we walked all the way home again past the Olympic stadium.  There are police on every corner because A. Merkel is in town and we'd heard

there had been a car bombing yesterday. 

During dinner it rained - for the first time in 4 weeks - but it had stopped by the time we had finshed. So we went for a little walk to see the floodlights.