From the Agora, we had lunch in the Plaka, a fabulous downtown area of shops, cafes and tavernas.  The food, ah... the food!  Following lunch we boarded our bus again with our faithful driver, Jimmy, for a MOST interesting journey to the Acropolis...

Lunch at The Hermion. The setting was marvelous, a courtyard covered with a trellis full of grape vines. 

 Ditty with Greek beer

John and Greek bread

 John was more impressed by the bread.

 

 

"Yeah, un huh, we can move this easy..."

 One of the highlights of the entire trip was a traffic hoohah on a side street in the Plaka.

Jimmy, our driver (be still, my heart), is an excellent judge of distance and depth perception, but even his expertise couldn't deal with an illegally parked car.. 

 Jimmy the Greek
 

 

Naturally, the bus emptied and we witnessed Greek language (and gestures) at their finest.  The men on the bus thought they could lift the car out of the way.  Yeah, right.

 "So, if YOU take the left rear fender, and YOU take the right one..."

"Huh?"

 While I was watching and taking pictures, a guy came over to me and muttered,  "This would NEVER happen on Cyprus." (That's him in the yellow shirt.)

 

 

The Cypriot, Antoniou Stelios, asked me if I would take his photo in the middle of the hoohah and mail it to him when I returned.  Of course, I agreed.

Rescued!!!

 Within twenty minutes, a policeman arrived with tow truck to move the car.  Interestingly, they simply moved the car around the corner and left it there.

 

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