I'm gonna beg borrow or steal

[hawkwing_lb]

I appear to like sleep. Judging by how much of it I do, anyway. When I finally rose today it was noon. I swear, I meant to get up earlier, but when I was lying there it just didn't seem nearly as important...

The metro from Viktoria was disgustingly packed - I will never feel comfortable squashed against strangers - but fortunately I was changing at Omonia for Akropoli, so it was only one stop. Went to the Tourist Info place to pick up a map and a timetable for the buses to Nauplio, and met there one tiny tabby cat, who had figured out a trick for tiny cats to open automatic doors. It was friendly enough to permit skritches - and yes, I'm missing my kittens. I'm even more of a sucker for strange cats than usual.

Made use of my free entry card to cut up the south slope of the acropolis and down through the agora to reach the Kerameikos. I was hoping to see a tortoise at some point, but no joy there. Instead I had a brief glimpse of a bird I had never seen before: brown head, black and white banded wings, with a thin pointy beak.

Wandered around for a bit, finally getting to proper grips with the layout of the Dipylon Gate and the Tomb of the Lakedaimonians, before heading to Yogolicious for yoghurt lunch. Now I must attempt to work on the conference paper - and not scratch my itchy bits to death, goddamn flies.

Comments

[txanne.livejournal.com]

That sounds like such a classical-Athenian shortcut to take! Unless there were houses in the way at the time?

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Considering I went by the Peripatos and the Panathenaic way - if it had been Classical Athens, I could've walked through the agora along the Sacred Way to the Sacred Gate and into the Kerameikos thusly, but the modern Green Line metro is in the way.