Today Kristy and I decided to go to the mountian that is saposed to give the best view of the city, which it defentily did. We took the subway to the stop we were saposed to get off at to find the mountian, and you think a mountian wouldn't be hard to find...well let me tell you it was. We stopped and looked at our map, which we never leave the house without. We were looking at it and this old man walked up to us and asked us where we were tiring to go, we showed him and he pointed us in the right direction. We we began our search, we got to the top of what felt like a million stairs and the road that was saposed to have the train to take to the top of the mountian was a dead end...we walked to the end and found so,e stairs and figured this just be where were saposed to go. Needless to say we never found and damn train. We ended up hiking up the hill, which had pretty good walking paths. We got about halfway up and stopped to take in the view, while we were standing there we seen a cat so we watched the cat for a minute only to find...a turtle! Yup that's right I said a turtle, I'm not really sure how a turtle got up the mountian and to where it was. We got to the top and the view was amazing, even better then the view from the acropolis because this was higher up. You could see some of the greek islands, and the whole city. There was also a little church at the top of this mountian which was unique.
After our hike we went to this neighbourhood called plaka, which is basically a huge shopping district. Kristy and I weren't really I'm th shopping mood so we jus womdered around and took in the sites. Early that morning I had found a crepe restaurant which I knew was in plaka and I knew the street. We we got out the map and figured it out, haha yeah this area is not the most straight foward with the streets because most of them don't make any sense and change names halfway down the street. After walking around for about 25 mins we stopped to look at the map again, and low and behold another man asked us if we needed help. He showed us where to go and asked us how we managed to get so far away from the street we need, leave it to us. On our way to the road we found these two dogs who Kristy stopped to pet, from then on we had bodyguards on our walk. Now I don't mean they just followed us, the barked and bit at any man that walked by us, including people on scooters. But if women walked by they had no problem, we stopped a few times to check our map and the dogs would stop and sit down and wait for us, they followed us all the way to the restaurant, and when we went to go in wined and cried when we did. I have a feeling they sat outside the restaurant for a bit because we found them down the street a bit when we left.
We had the best crepes at this place, since we've been in Europe, and we have had many so far. There was a lot of different variety that I've never seen before for crepes. We liked them so much we both ordered two, but they weren't very big and we were starving. We wondered around for a bit after lunch and got asked if we were sisters once again. Since we've been here we've had so many people ask us if we're sisters. After this we met a Greek Canadian who owned a restaurant, he asked us where we were from and as it turns out he was born in Toronto. The cooks who work for him apperently are two 60 year old Greek women who have cooked their whole lives. Apperently they have live music, so I think we're going to check it out sometime while we are here.
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