a small piece of paper with Entrance written on it and stuck to the fence by two pieces of sticky tape. The gates were opened up at 7.58 and we made a bee line for the top deciding we would visit the temples and ruins on the slopes on the way down.
There weren't many people at the top and we managed to have uninterrupted views of the Parthenon and the Ercehtheion. K was happy to finally see the Caryatids in real life after so many years of admiring them and making them in clay.
Apart from a few young girls working hard to get the perfect Instagram shot of themselves in front of the Parthenon it was reasonably quiet. By the time we left the top it was 9am and the hordes were starting to arrive. We followed the path around the outside seeing the caves and stopping off at some of the sites we had rushed past in our bid to be at the top first.
The Odeon of Herod was particularly impressive and we would have loved to have seen a show there but they weren’t starting for a few more weeks. At 10am we decided we had seen it all and forced our back through the incoming masses to get to the gate, it can't be much fun trying to see the Parthenon through the gaps between other people.
We then climbed the slippery rock where the apostle Paul had conducted many ministries before taking the cute streets back through Anafiotika stopping for a drink on the way.
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