Harry Hornabrook
Exploring Athens
After a long day visiting many icons and museums around Athens we all earned ourselves a few hours of time for ourselves to explore the city on our own accord. This was pretty exciting for us all as we finally got the opportunity to have a splurge in the shops and grab a bite to eat. Trying to avoid another night of kebabs, many of us decided to fork out a few more euros to indulge ourselves into a more classy Greek restaurant experience.
Once all the shops had closed up for the night, and with it being a Sunday this was quite early, it left us searching for ways to occupy ourselves for the last hour or so of our free time. So a couple of us made it our goal to socialise with a few of the locals in the square. The hard part was trying to find people that could understand what you were actually saying, but once you pushed past the language barrier it was all okay.
Jamie and I took the approach of a few clueless tourists who were lost and needed to find the way back to our hotel and our appearance, that was well thought out, consisting of a camera around the neck and a very large map that needed at least two people to hold outstretched, it proved quite successful as we managed to grab a few photos with some Greek university students who were happy to point us in the right direction.
