Athens is great. The first day here I went to see sights of Athens and the Acropolis. I couldn't believe the Acropolis it was beautiful, sitting atop the mountain, and the buildings are so well preserved. After the Acropolis, instead of going back to the port with the tour, my friends (Amanda, Caitlyn, and Catherine, and Elsabeth) stayed behind to look around and get dinner. We first went to the Plaka, like an old town, and found a hole in the wall Suflacki(sorry for the spelling) place that Catherine's dad recommended. Turns out that place is gone and this new one now exists. It was amazing and for 3.10 Euro we all got Suflacki in a pita and a soda. This was a nice snack!! Then we went shopping. We found a bakery(really all we did today was eat I swear). In the bakery every wall was filled with Turkish delights, Greek Christmas cookies(like ginger bread), pine nut covered marzipan balls, and a variety of marmalade filled cookies. We all got a variety and shared. Then we went to dinner. It was strange because we asked some older man for directions and he said no, no, no don't go there it's touristy and he took us to another local place. He literally went out of his way, he owns a shop, and took us to this great restaurant. We had a Greek salad and appetizers, and a bottle of wine. That was enough, we couldn't make it to the main course because it was so much. But the food was amazing: with sausage, tziki sauce, fried cheese sticks, the grape leaf thing. It was incredible. Then at the end of the meal the owner of the restaurant brought us all out a double shot of ouzo (black licorice flavored alcohol). When poured over ice it turns a milky color. It was strong but it was on the house so we all HAD to drink it, despite most of our deep loathing for black licorice. It wasn't too bad. We took a taxi back to the port, because by this time it was pretty late and got ready to go to a local bar. We went to an Irish pub and a Karaoke bar, very random in Greece!! Then went to bed.
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