Athens

We landed at the ultra-modern Athens airport, where you still have to take a bus to get from the plane to the terminal (just like the modern airport - Dulles - that still has buses, just not as reliable)! And they fit everyone from the plane onto the little bus.

We visited Eleni's relatives, but no names or pictures since this is a public blog.

Here are two cute parrots from the National Garden area:

The botanical garden also had turtles

Eleni at the highest point in Athens, which of course has a chapel.

From the highest point in Athens

The climb to ditto - There's always a hill. The Gathering was a bit of a disappointment. Due to dire weather forecasts (which turned out to be a big exaggeration), the concert was moved inside to Floyd. I'm pretty sure they filled it to about triple capacity, so it was pretty uncomfortable and hard to see anything. Acoustics were good, though loud as usual. The Gathering seemed to be into it as they were last time we saw them in Athens (in a much less crowded venue). But they didn't start until 1.5 hours after we started standing around the overcrowded venue, so we didn't stay until the end (remember - we're old and we'd been walking all day.)