Geo: 37.9792, 23.7166Awake in the dark, watching the luminescent hands on my watch tick away. Then suddenly, a knock on the door, parents coming in, siblings awake, and hugs in all directions. After unwrapping my wonderful present, we headed out into Athens to find breakfast. After a quick trainride, we stopped for a traditional breakfast bread as "just a snack". We headed down through the plaka, or old town, to see the old Roman Agora or marketplace. As we were still hungry, we had another breakfast, where Matthew had a toasted sandwich and fries for breakfast! We then went into the Agora to see the amazingly well preserved ruins. This took a couple of hours but as the Agora was used for 100s of years, this did not get boring. After this we walked back through
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