Day 6: National Garden

Today was a relatively lazy day; I spent most of the morning prepping for our trip to Turkey and fighting with various service providers.

In the afternoon we toured the National Garden: Athens’ equivalent of Central Park. It was appropriately lush and nicely peaceful (considering it’s surrounded on 4 sides by heavily trafficked streets).

Dinner was out in the Monastriaki district, a restaurant-and-bar-heavy commercial district that skewed more local than Plaka. The food we had in Athens was simple in composition but always rich in flavour, and was probably my personal highlight of the stay.

I think I’m ready to move on. There’s certainly many more things that we could do here if we were staying longer, but personally I feel like I’ve got enough of the Athens experience to say that I’ve Been There. It’s like eating until full but not overstuffed.

Tomorrow is someplace new: Izmir, Turkey, by way of Istanbul.