MARTIN PLACE: 2011

Hi all

Arrived in hong kong on the 27th and will be leaving 11pm tomorrow night.

So nice to be with family, They ave been showing us such a great time we have forgotten to take photos.

I think we are a bit tired of being tourists and just want to enjoy what hong kong has to offer.

We have been here before, albeit 29 years ago on our honeymoon. Things have changed but I think for the better. It seems much more cosmopolitan when we were here last it was still a commonwealth colony, but there were very few expats living here.

We went to a place called mid levels yesterday, this is mid way up the mountain in hong kong, it is terraced streets with every king of Resturant you can imagine, italian, Greek, tibetan, English etc. Amazing you would not have seen this last time.

There was a typhoon that blew by last week, that was a good excuse to rest. I have since taken on my duty to shop till I drop with a passion, and guess what one more full day left, staying in discovery bay today, and having lamb roast. But back to my favorite Resturant at mui wo tomorrow yummy.

See you all soon, keep safe

Karen

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Here we are on our past 3 days in Greece. We had a free afternoon so I did the washing and watched Collingwood beat Horthorn by 3points at a local taverna.
Later we started went on a night time bus tour followed by a traditional Greek dinner with dancing and singing.

The next day we went on a half day tour which included a bus tour of some of the important monuments followed by a tour of the Acropolis Museum and a walk to the top of the Acropolis to see the Pathenon. This was a great tour.

The museum is built over the top of the old city reins. Archeologist are still excavating and you get great views of the ruins through windows in the floor.

The following who to shows 2 distinct time periods denoted by the 2 floor layers.

This photo shows a clay pipe drainage system.

No photos were allowed in the museum.

We then started our assent of the Acropolis. and passed the once covered theatre of Herod Atticus.

Some historical facts.......
The sacred rock of the Acropolis was for many century the most important religious centre of the city of Athens. The first traces of occupation go back to the Neolithic period. In the Mycenaean times it was the seat of the king, whose megaton stood roughly on the site on which the Erechtheion was built many centuries later. After the 11th century BC it became the home of the cult of Athena, patron goddess of the city that took her name and of other gods. In the middle of the 5th century BC, when Athens was at the height of it's power, the ambitious artistic program of Perikles was implemented: the Parthenon, the Propyleae and a little later the temple of Athena Niki and the Erechtheion were all erected between 447 and 406 BC.

We passed the once covered theatre of Herod Atticus.