Athens
The real start of the Trafalgar tour.
An early morning start (8am). Another sunny day, but not too hot at this hour. In honesty, I have looked up at the Acropolis and seen the height to get there, and am not particularly looking forward to the climb.
We are picked up by the bus, and after a 20 minute route through the narrow one-way streets, reach the bus parking bay. In reality we could have walked here in 5 minutes.
The reality is that the walk is not that daunting. The landscape on the way up is far from green, in fact, dry and scrubby would be my best description.
Part way up, we look down on an amphitheater.
The approaches to the top of the Acropolis are still a challenge, with marble steps and slippery intrusions.
Once at the top, the structures of the Parthenon, the temple of Nike and the Erechteion are simply amazing.
Though I am not too sure of the sanity of the people who climbed the nearby rock:
The views over Athens from the top of the Acropolis are just as amazing as the view from Athens to the Acropolis. Even Hadrian’s Arch appears within touching distance.
After descending from the Acropolis, we did a quick trip around Athens, then another tour of the Acropolis museum, Far more crowded than the other day, so I did not bother with photos, but gleaned a lot of info from our guide, Nia.
I did however take a photo of a Lego version of the Acropolis, built by a Melbourne academic.
Cape Sounion
Still stinking hot.
After a simple lunch at the bakery, time to the hit the road for Cape Sounion and the Temple of Poseidon. It is about a 90 min drive, skirting the coastline the whole way.
While the ultimate goal is the temple, the scenery is simply breathtaking.
Fishfarms in one of the bays: 
At the temple itself, on an exposed headland, the wind was horrendous. General consensus was that if Aegus did actually jump to his death, he would have been blown back up.
Some more coastline:
