Tuesday, August 12, 2008

The Acropolis


I intend to make it famous. When I got to the hotel I asked the manager about going to see it. He told me not to bother it was closed.
"There is nothing to see."
Huh. I asked the waitress in the trattoria if that was true. It was my first day in Athens and I really wanted to see it. Even from a distance. She said.
"Well... it's nice if you want to go for a walk."
I took a map from the lobby of a better equipped hotel and found my way there. There were hundreds of people dining out in the scores of restaurants at the base. My heart was pounding as I rounded the corner and saw it for the first time, lit by a rising moon.

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