Downtown Athens

After lunch we headed down the street to the subway station. The subway was built for the 2004 Olympics. It is by far the cleanest one I've ever seen. There were very few people using it at 1:30 in the afternoon so we had a comfortable ride into the commercial center of Athens. This is the view we got as we came out of the subway stop. Lykavittos Hill is in the background. That blue cow is Athens' version of the same silly plastic animals virtually every city in the world now has on display. Local businesses pay to decorate them and then donate the thing to charitable organizations for an auction. Clever idea the first 50 times I saw one, now they've become passe'.